HMAS Ardent (P 87)
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 HMAS Ardent |
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| Career (Royal Australian Navy) |  |
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| Builder: | Evans Deakin and Company |
| Laid down: | October 1967 |
| Launched: | 27 April 1968 |
| Commissioned: | 26 October 1968 |
| Decommissioned: | 6 January 1994 |
| Recommissioned: | Date unknown |
| Reclassified: | Training ship (date unknown) |
| Motto: | "Flame And Fury" |
| Badge: |  |
| 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 Ardent (P 87/A243) was an Attack class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy.
She was laid down by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane in Queensland in October 1967, launched on 27 April 1968 and commissioned on 26 October 1968.
Ardent was transferred to the Hobart Port Division of the Royal Australian Navy Reserve on 18 June 1982 and paid off on 6 January 1994. She was later recommissioned with the pennant number A243 and used as a navigation training ship for junior warfare officers. She was later decommissioned from service.
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