Patrol Boats

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HMAS Arrow's deadly sprint back to Darwin wharf

A cyclone Tracy survivor tells of the HMAS Arrows deadly sprint back to Darwin wharf. Mitchell Abram, SABC News:, 9:24am Saturday 19...

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HMAS Lae P93

HMAS Lae P93 was an Attack class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). It was named for the city of Lae, capital of Morobe...

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HMAS Aware P91

HMAS Aware P91 was an Attack-class patrol boat. She was launched on the 7th of October 1967, commissioned on the 21st of June 1968 and...

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HMAS Assail P89

HMAS Assail was commissioned into naval service in Brisbane on 12 July 1968. She was one of twenty Attack class patrol boats ordered for...

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HMAS Arrow P88

HMAS Arrow was commissioned into naval service at Hervey Bay in Queensland on 3 July 1968. She was one of twenty Attack class patrol...

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HMAS Ardent P87

HMAS Ardent P 87/A243 was an Attack class patrol boat. She was built by Evans Deakin and Company, and was commissioned into the RAN in...

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HMAS Samarai P85

HMAS Samarai P 85, named after the island of Samarai and its former town, was an Attack class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy. ...

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Cape Class Patrol Boat

The Cape class is a ship class of eight large patrol boats operated by the Marine Unit of the Australian Border Force (previously the...

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Attack Class Patrol Boats

The Attack-class patrol boats were small coastal defence vessels built for the Royal Australian Navy and operated between 1967 and 1985....