HMAS Buccaneer (P 100)

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Career
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:	14 September 1968
Commissioned:	5 January 1973(?)
Decommissioned:	27 July 1984
Fate:	Sunk as a target in 1988.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	146 tons
Length:	32 m
Beam:	6.1 m
Draught:
Propulsion:	Two 16 cylinder turbocharged diesel engines developing 3,460 hp, driving two shafts
Speed:	24 knots
Range:
Complement:	25
Armament:	One 40 mm gun One 81 mm mortar Two .50 caliber machine guns Mines and depth charges could also be carried
Aircraft:
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HMAS Buccaneer (P-100) was an Attack-class patrol boat built by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane in Queensland, launched on 14 September 1968 and commissioned on 5 January 1973. Buccaneer paid off on 27 July 1984 and was sunk by gunfire on 8 October 1988.

Attack-class patrol boat

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List of ships of the Royal Australian Navy