Theunissen described this as “a warship without any teeth ... Two of the corvettes, including the SAS Amatola, were built by the German Frigate Consortium, a private company, while the ...

The SAS Amatola, the first of four frigates bought ... as the "godmother" of the most modern warship in the world today. Amatola is taken from a famous battle in 1852 in the Eastern Cape led ...

South African naval authorities yesterday denied suggestions of insensitivity in naming the country's newest warship after the ... the navy when a corvette, SAS Amatola, was named after the ...

CORVETTE COMMISSIONED: The South African navy's first MEKO A-200 SAN corvette, the SAS Amatola, was commissioned during a Feb. 16 ceremony in Simonstown, South Africa, German shipbuilder ...

Johannesburg - The South African Navy's first-of-class corvette, SAS Amatola, has begun its final sea acceptance trials, the British news website Defence Systems Daily reported on Tuesday. Operating ...

SAS Spioenkop is the one of the four warships already acquired by the department ... These war ships are SAS Amatola, SAS Isandlwana and SAS Mendi and SAS Spioenkop. The frigate will officially ...

The SAS Amatola cost R2.4-billion. One of four frigates bought as part of the infamous arms deal, the state-of-the-art ship entered service in 2006. Its crew of 152 has a mixture of cannon ...