RKS Teanoai explained

RKS Teanoai (301) is a operated by the Republic of Kiribati Police. Teanoai is 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 200adj=onNaNadj=on exclusive economic zone for all maritime nations.

Teanoai will be replaced by the larger and more capable in late 2020, postponed to July 2021.

Operational history

In 2006 Teanoai worked with the Greenpeace ship on fishery patrol.

In February 2018 Teanoai and performed a joint patrol of their waters. On November 7, 2019, Teanoai rendezvoused with . The vessels' crews engaged in boarding exercises, including both Strattons pursuit boat, and her on-board helicopter.