Previously a Haiqing-class submarine chaser of the People's Liberation Army Navy, it was donated by the Chinese government in 2014.

The Haiqing class are a follow-on class of submarine chasers to the preceding Type 037 submarine chasers of the People's Liberation Army Navy.

[1] It served in the PLA Navy as the Ledong(hull 748) before being decommissioned on the 3 June 2016 at a Naval port in China's Hainan province.

[2] The patrol boat was then refurbished by Poly Technologies[3] after which Namibian crews went to China for training on the ship.

[6] The ship is operationally utilised for general exclusive economic zone management.