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HMAS Adroit

FieldValue
section1{{Infobox ship/image
imageAttack-class.jpg
image_captionHMAS Adroit (at right) with three other Attack-class patrol boats
section2{{Infobox ship/career
countryAustralia
flag
builderEvans Deakin and Company
laid_downAugust 1967
launched3 February 1968
commissioned17 August 1968
decommissioned28 March 1992
fateSunk as target
section3{{Infobox ship/characteristics
class
displacement*100 tons standard
length107.6 ft length overall
beam20 ft
draught*6.4 ft at standard load
*{{convert7.3ftmabbron}} at full load
propulsion*2 × 16-cylinder Paxman YJCM diesel engines
*{{convert3460shpabbron}}
speed24 kn
range1200 nmi at 13 kn
complement3 officers, 16 sailors
armament*1 × Bofors 40 mm 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 Adroit (P 82) was an of 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 around Borneo during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation, and to replace a variety of old patrol, search-and-rescue, and general-purpose craft. Their propulsion machinery consisted of two 16-cylinder Paxman YJCM diesel engines, which supplied 3460 shp to the two propellers.

Adroit was laid down by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane, Queensland, in August 1967, launched on 3 February 1968 and commissioned on 17 August 1968.

Operational history

The patrol boat was transferred to the Fremantle Port Division of the Royal Australian Navy Reserve in March 1983.

Fate

Adroit paid off on 28 March 1992. The patrol boat was sunk as a target by A-4 Skyhawk aircraft of No. 2 Squadron RNZAF on 8 August 1994. The wreck is located in the Rottnest ship graveyard, west of Rottnest Island.

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References

  1. 107.6. ft in [[length overall]], had a beam of {{convert. 20. ft. m, and draughts of {{convert. 6.4. ft at standard load, and {{convert. 7.3. ft
  2. Blackman (ed.), ''Jane's Fighting Ships, 1968–69'', p. 18
  3. Gillett, ''Australian and New Zealand Ships Since 1946'', p. 87
  4. Garratt, Dena. (2006). "Précis of the wrecks in the ship's graveyard, Rottnest". Western Australian Museum.
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