The Achimota-class fast attack craft (FAC) are based on the Lürssen PB 57 design and share a basic layout as the Turkish Yıldız class.

[1][2][a] The two ships are powered by three MTU 16V 538 TB91 diesel engines each turning one shaft rated at 8,500 kilowatts (11,400 bhp).

The Achimota class are equipped with Thomsen-CSF Canopus A surface search and fire control radar a LIDD optronic director.

[2] Two FACs were ordered by Ghana in October 1977 from Lürssen to be constructed at their shipyard in Vegesack, West Germany.

[2] On 14 September 1990, Achimota was hit by National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) artillery while on a fact-finding mission near Monrovia.