HMAS Adroit (P 82)
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HMAS Adroit (at right) with three other Attack class patrol boats |
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Career (Royal Australian Navy) | |
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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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