HMAS Aitape (P 84)
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Career (Royal Australian Navy) | |
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Builder: | Walkers Limited |
Launched: | 6 July 1967 |
Commissioned: | 13 November 1967 |
Decommissioned: | 14 November 1974 |
Fate: | Sold to Papua New Guinea |
Career (Papua New Guinea Defence Force) | |
Status: | Unknown |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Attack class patrol boat |
Displacement: | 100 tons standard, 146 tons full load |
Length: | 32.76 metres (107 ft) |
Beam: | 6.2 metres (20ft) |
Draught: | 1.9 metres (6ft) |
Propulsion: | Two 16 cylinder Davey-Paxman Ventura turbocharged diesel engines developing 3,460 hp, driving two shafts |
Speed: | 24 knots (44 km/h) |
Complement: | 25 |
Armament: | 1 x 40 mm gun, 1 x 81 mm mortar, 2 x .50 calibre machine guns. Mines and depth charges could also be carried |
HMAS Aitape (P 84) was an Attack class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy
She was laid down by Walkers Limited at Maryborough in Queensland, launched on 6 July 1967 and commissioned on 13 November 1967.
Aitape was transferred to the Papua New Guinea Defence Force on 14 November 1974.
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