The Marlin Class is a class of patrol ships of the Brazilian Navy. Built by the shipbuilding industry of Ceará (in Portuguese Industria Naval do Ceara or INACE), the project is based on a model created by the yard Italian luxury yacht Baglietto, the city of Varazze. The ships will be used in the Capitania dos Portos (a Brazilian equivalent of the USCG) to carry out the actions of patrol vessels, surveillance of maritime traffic and the actions of search and rescue (SAR) and other subsidiary task.