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The refurbishment of NNS Thunder F90 (formerly CGC CHASE), which was transferred to the Nigerian Navy by the United States Coast Guard on Friday has gulped about $8 million.<\/p>\n

The 378-foot warship is undergoing logistics-related refurbishment, which includes the replacement of equipment that is unique to US military.<\/p>\n

Though the US gave Nigeria the warship, the nation is footing the bill for the refurbishment.<\/p>\n

Commander of Fleet Support Group, Nigerian Navy, Commodore Sylvanius Chinueuba, confirmed the cost of refurbishment to journalists shortly after the Nigerian Navy took possession of the ship at a ceremony on Coast Guard Island in Alameda, California.<\/p>\n

Chinueuba said its addition to the Nigerian Navy fleet, brings to two, the number of ships of similar mould – the other being NNS Aradu, the Nigerian Navy’s flagship.<\/p>\n

NNS Thunder F90, powered by two 3,500 horsepower diesel engines and two 18,000 horsepower gas turbines, with controllable-pitch propellers, can achieve a top speed of 28 knots and is equipped with a helicopter flight deck, retractable hangar and facilities to support helicopter deployment.<\/p>\n

The warship, which was launched in 1967, belongs to the Hamilton class cutters, which had only twelve of its kind in US Coast Guard Fleet.<\/p>\n

Until it was decomissioned in March 2011, the ship was used by the US Coast Guard for defence operations, maritime security\/law enforcement, search and rescue, living marine resources, ports, waterway, and coastal security, alien-migrant interdiction, and drug interdiction.<\/p>\n

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