Deliveries include a Spanish police interceptor, a US Navy air-cushion landing craft, and two canal patrol boats for operation in the City of Amsterdam. Construction has begun on a response boat for a Dutch sea rescue organisation. Lastly, a French naval shipbuilder has unveiled a more heavily-armed variant of an existing frigate design.
Spanish shipbuilder Aister has delivered the interceptor boat Río Manzanares to Spain’s Guardia Civil police force, completing a series of eight vessels built for the agency's maritime service.
Río Manzanares is intended for coastal surveillance, patrol and counter-narcotics interception in southern Spanish waters. Boats from the series operate around Cádiz, the Strait of Gibraltar, and the Guadalquivir estuary.
Aister said the maritime service, "required a technologically advanced and robust solution to counter the fast craft deployed by organised crime in challenging operational arenas such as the Strait of Gibraltar."
The boats have replaced the Guardia Civil's previous FRP-hulled patrol vessels. Aister said feedback from crews helped inform construction refinements throughout the series.
The US Navy recently took delivery of a new air-cushion landing craft (LCAC) built by Textron Systems Corporation.
LCAC 118 is the 19th LCAC-100-class vessel. Like her sisters, she has an LOA of 92 feet (28 metres), a beam of 48 feet (15 metres), a height of 26 feet (7.9 metres), and four crewmembers consisting of a pilot, a co-pilot, a loadmaster and a deck engineer.
The craft's open deck has a total area of 1,608 square feet (149 square metres) and can accommodate a maximum of 67 tons of assorted loads consisting of vehicles and heavy equipment. Separate from the cargo deck is an enclosed personnel transport module that can house 145 combat-equipped troops or 108 casualty victims.
The LCAC 100-class vessels are built with similar configurations, dimensions, and clearances to the US Navy's "legacy" LCACs to ensure their compatibility with existing well deck-equipped amphibious ships as well as the expeditionary transfer docks of the Military Sealift Command.
Two new electric patrol vessels were recently handed over to Gemeente Amsterdam, the local government administration of the Dutch City of Amsterdam.
The two new boats are near-identical sisters of Waterpieper and Waterhoen, which were delivered to Gemeente Amsterdam in 2021. A patrol boat from the same series was also delivered to the Amsterdam Police during that time.
The recently delivered Gemeente Amsterdam boats belong to a series of vessels that are optimised for navigation in restrictive inland waters but have been upgraded to incorporate all-electric propulsion to guarantee reduced noise and emissions, making them ideal for use in urban areas.
Each of the new patrol boats measures 13.5 by four metres and is fitted with a single 130kW electric motor and an 11kW bow thruster. When operating at average speed, each vessel can sail for a full day on a single charge.
French shipbuilder the Naval Group recently unveiled an enlarged version of its FDI frigate design.
The FDI XL concept inserts a new hull section amidships, between the integrated mast and the funnel. The insertion of approximately 10 metres would bring the LOA to 132 metres and displacement to an estimated 5,300 to 5,500 tonnes.
The Naval Group said that more powerful engines would preserve the speed of the existing FDI design despite the added displacement. The company also said additional fuel storage would improve range and endurance.
The baseline FDI is rated at 27 knots, with a range of 5,000 nautical miles at 15 knots and an endurance of 45 days.
The Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution (KNRM) has marked the start of construction of the first of 13 new all-weather rescue boats with a keel-laying ceremony held recenrtly in Makkum.
Prins Johan Friso is the lead vessel of the series, which will comprise lifeboats each measuring more than 19 metres long. Dok and Scheepsbouw Woudsend is building the series, with initial hull sections of the first boat being assembled at Bloemsma Aluminiumbouw in Makkum.
KNRM ordered the 13 boats in November 2025 in what was the largest single shipyard order in its history.
Eleven boats will be assigned to stations at Eemshaven, Schiermonnikoog, Ameland, Terschelling, Vlieland, Den Helder, Scheveningen, Hoek van Holland, Stellendam, Neeltje Jans, and Breskens. The remaining two will form a reserve to cover for station boats withdrawn for maintenance.
Prins Johan Friso is one of the two reserve vessels.