HMAS Adroit (P 82)

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HMAS Adroit with three other Attack class patrol boats
HMAS Adroit (at right) with three other Attack class patrol boats
Career (Royal Australian Navy) RAN ensign
Builder: Evans Deakin and Company
Laid down: August 1967
Launched: 3 February 1968
Commissioned: 17 August 1968
Decommissioned: 28 March 1992
Fate: Sunk as target
General characteristics
Class and type: Attack class patrol boat
Displacement: 146 tons
Length: 32 metres
Beam: 6.1 metres
Propulsion: Two 16 cylinder turbocharged diesel engines developing 3,460 hp, driving two shafts
Speed: 24 knots
Complement: 25
Armament: 1 x 40 mm gun, 1 x 81 mm mortar, 2 x .50 caliber machine guns. Mines and depth charges could also be carried

HMAS Adroit (P 82) was an Attack-class patrol boat laid down by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane in Queensland in August 1967, launched on 3 February 1968 and commissioned on 17 August 1968.

Adroit paid off on 28 March 1992 and was sunk as a target by A-4 Skyhawk aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force west of Rottnest Island on 8 August 1994.

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