HMAS Advance (P 83)
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 HMAS Advance at the Australian National Maritime Museum |
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| Career (Royal Australian Navy) |  |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Walkers Limited, Queensland |
| Laid down: | March 1967 |
| Launched: | 16 August 1967 |
| Commissioned: | 24 January 1968 |
| Decommissioned: | 6 February 1988 |
| Motto: | "Never Look Back" |
| Fate: | Converted to museum ship |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Attack class patrol boat |
| Displacement: | 148.3 tons |
| Length: | 32 metres |
| Beam: | 6.1 metres |
| Draught: | 2.2 metres |
| Propulsion: | Two Paxman 16-cylinder diesels producing 2611 kW (3000 hp) |
| Speed: | 21 knots |
| Complement: | 19 |
| Armament: | One 40 mm Bofors gun, One 81 mm mortar, Two .50 caliber machine guns. Mines and depth charges could also be carried |
HMAS Advance (P 83) was an Attack class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy.
She was laid down by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane in Queensland in March 1967, launched on 16 August 1967, and commissioned on 24 January 1968.
Advance operated out of HMAS Coonawarra in Darwin, Northern Territory between 1967 and 1978.[1] During her career, Advance performed many duties, including costal surveillance, customs and immigration enforcement, training, and rescue. She survived Cyclone Tracy in 1974, shadowed a suspected Russian spy vessel, assisted in hydrographic surveys of northern Australian waters, and portrayed the fictional HMAS Ambush in in the ABC TV series Patrol Boat.[1]
Advance was decommissioned on 6 February 1988, and was transferred to the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour in Sydney, where she remains as of 2007.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Information board at the Australian National Maritime Museum
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