RKS Teanoai (301) was a operated by the Republic of Kiribati Police. Teanoai was one of twenty-two small patrol vessels Australia designed and built for smaller fellow members of the Pacific Forum, after the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea extended control of a exclusive economic zone for all maritime nations.
Teanoai was replaced by the larger and more capable in May 2021, and decommissioned thereafter.
Operational history
In 2006 Teanoai worked with the Greenpeace ship on fishery patrol.
In February 2018 Teanoai and performed open ocean exercises and a joint patrol of their waters. On November 7, 2019, Teanoai rendezvoused with . The vessels' crews engaged in boarding exercises, with Strattons pursuit boat, and her on-board helicopter both being used.
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