LÉ Aoife (P22)

LÉ Aoife (P22) at sea.
Career	Irish Naval Jack
Ordered:
Laid down:	3 July 1978
Launched:	12 April 1979
Commissioned:	29 November 1979
Decommissioned:
Fate:	in active service
General Characteristics
Displacement:	1019.5 tons Standard
Length:	213.7 ft (65.2 m) overall
Beam:	34.4 ft (10.5 m)
Draught:	14.4ft (4.4 m)
Speed:	17 knots (31.5 km/h) maximum
Complement:	46 (5 Officers and 41 Ratings )
Armament:	1 Bofors 40mm 2xGambo 20mm Cannons 7.62mm L7 GPMGs

LÉ Aoife (P22) is a ship in the Irish Naval Service. The ship is named after Aoife, stepmother to The children of Lir, whom she turned into swans.

The LÉ Aoife assisted in the rescue of the Canadian Forces Maritime Command submarine off the northwestern coast of Ireland on October 5 2004.

External link

*IDF LÉ Aoife webpage