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HMAS Acute

1967 Attack-class patrol vessel

Summary

1967 Attack-class patrol vessel

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section2	{{Infobox ship/career
country	Australia
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builder	Evans Deakin and Company
laid_down	April 1967
launched	26 August 1967
commissioned	26 April 1968
decommissioned	6 May 1983
motto	Swift to the Point
nickname	"The Lone Gun of the West Coast"
fate	Sold to Indonesia
section3	{{Infobox ship/career
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country	Indonesia
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name	Silea
status	Active as of 2011
section4	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
class
displacement	*100 tons standard
length	107.6 ft length overall
beam	20 ft
draught	*6.4 ft at standard load
*{{convert	7.3	ft	m	abbr	on}} at full load
propulsion	*2 × 16-cylinder Paxman YJCM diesel engines
*{{convert	3460	shp	abbr	on}}
speed	24 kn
range	1200 nmi at 13 kn
complement	3 officers, 16 sailors
armament	*1 × Bofors 40 mm L/60 QF Mark VII gun

146 tons full load
7.3 ft at full load
3460 shp
2 shafts
2 × .50-calibre M2 Browning machine guns
Small arms HMAS Acute (P 81) was an operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

Design and construction

Main article: Attack-class patrol boat

The Attack class was ordered in 1964 to operate in Australian waters as patrol boats (based on lessons learned through using the s on patrols of Borneo during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation, and to replace a variety of old patrol, search-and-rescue, and general-purpose craft. Propulsion machinery consisted of two 16-cylinder Paxman YJCM diesel engines, which supplied 3460 shp to the two propellers.

Acute was laid down by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane, launched on 26 August 1967, and commissioned on 26 April 1968.

Operational history

Acute was predominantly used for training of Royal Australian Navy Reserve personnel at Fremantle, Western Australia. Before the Two Ocean Policy was completely implemented, the patrol boat was for several years the only warship assigned to Western Australia (with the nickname "The Lone Gun of the West Coast"), and responsible for patrolling an area extending from Albany to Broome. Whilst on a training cruise in May 1983, Acute apprehended two Taiwanese fishing boats engaged in illegal fishing.

Acute paid off on 6 May 1983. She was transferred to the Indonesian Navy and renamed Silea. The patrol boat was listed in Jane's Fighting Ships as still operational in 2011.

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107.6. ft in [[length overall]], had a [[Beam (nautical). beam]] of {{convert. 20. ft. m, and [[Draft (hull). draughts]] of {{convert. 6.4. ft at standard load, and {{convert. 7.3. ft
Blackman (ed.), ''Jane's Fighting Ships, 1968–69'', p. 18
Straczek, ''The Royal Australian Navy: Ships, Aircraft and Shore Establishments''
Gillett, ''Australian and New Zealand Ships since 1946'', p. 87
From November 1978 until the 1980s,{{clarify date. Source cited is from 1980, but by 1983, vessel was presumably back in Reserve control. (October 2014 ''Acute'' was attached to the Permanent Naval Force, and was assigned to the newly completed base at {{HMAS)
Saunders (ed.), ''Jane's Fighting Ships 2011–2012'', p. {{page needed. (December 2012)

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