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FREMANTLE patrol craft (1980-1984)


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Bendigo 1985

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Fremantle 203   Brook Marine, Lowestoft, UK 11.11.1977 15.2.1979 17.3.1980 stricken 8.2006
Warrnambool 204   North Queensland Engineers & Agents, Cairns 30.9.1978 25.10.1980 14.3.1981 stricken 11.2005
Townsville 205   North Queensland Engineers & Agents, Cairns 5.3.1979 16.5.1981 18.7.1981 stricken 5.2007
Wollongong 206   North Queensland Engineers & Agents, Cairns 23.7.1979 17.10.1981 28.11.1981 stricken 2.2006
Launceston 207   North Queensland Engineers & Agents, Cairns 29.3.1980 23.1.1982 1.3.1982 stricken 9.2006
Whyalla 208   North Queensland Engineers & Agents, Cairns 13.7.1980 22.5.1982 3.7.1982 stricken 9.2005
Ipswich 209   North Queensland Engineers & Agents, Cairns 29.10.1980 25.9.1982 13.11.1982 stricken 5.2007
Cessnock 210   North Queensland Engineers & Agents, Cairns 9.3.1981 15.1.1983 5.3.1983 stricken 6.2005
Bendigo 211   North Queensland Engineers & Agents, Cairns 21.9.1981 9.4.1983 28.5.1983 stricken 9.2006
Gawler 212   North Queensland Engineers & Agents, Cairns 18.1.1982 9.7.1983 27.8.1983 stricken 7.2006
Geraldton 213   North Queensland Engineers & Agents, Cairns 3.5.1982 22.10.1983 10.12.1983 stricken 10.2006
Dubbo 214   North Queensland Engineers & Agents, Cairns 9.8.1982 21.1.1984 10.3.1984 stricken 2.2007
Geelong 215   North Queensland Engineers & Agents, Cairns 15.11.1982 14.4.1984 2.6.1984 stricken 7.2006
Gladstone 216   North Queensland Engineers & Agents, Cairns 7.3.1983 28.7.1984 8.9.1984 stricken 3.2007
Bunbury 217   North Queensland Engineers & Agents, Cairns 13.6.1983 3.11.1984 15.12.1984 stricken 2.2006


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

200
Displacement full, t230
Length, m42.0
Breadth, m7.15
Draught, m1.80
No of shafts3
Machinery

2 MTU 16V538 TB91 diesels + 1 Dorman 12JTM diesel
Power, h. p.7200 + 300 = 7500
Max speed, kts

30 / 8
Fuel, t

diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)4800(8)
Armament

1 x 1 - 40/60 AN-4, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 1 x 1 - 81/12 mortar
Electronic equipment

type 1006 radar, type 133 PRISM ECM suite
Complement23


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<i>Bendigo </i>1985
Bendigo 1985


Project history

Replacements for the Attack class, built to Brooke Marine's PCF-420 design. Five more boats (Ballarat, Mildura, Armidale, Bundaberg, Pirie) were cancelled in 1982.

Modernizations

1990s, all: Dorman 12JTM diesel and central shaft were removed; - type 1006 radar; + BridgeMaster-E radar

Naval service

No significant events.