HMAS Bayonet (P 101)
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 HMAS Bayonet at sea |
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| Career (Royal Australian Navy) |  |
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| Builder: | Evans Deakin and Company |
| Laid down: | October 1968 |
| Launched: | 6 November 1968 |
| Commissioned: | 22 February 1969 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 June 1988 |
| Reclassified: | Reserve (27 March 1982) |
| Motto: | "We Fix" |
| Fate: | Scuttled |
| 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 Bayonet (P 101) was an Attack class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy.
She was laid down by Walkers Limited at Maryborough in Queensland in October 1968, launched on 6 November 1968 and commissioned on 22 February 1969.
Bayonet was transferred to the Melbourne Port Division of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve on 27 March 1982 and paid off on 26 June 1988. She was scuttled on 21 September 1999, sinking 55 kilometres off Mornington Peninsula in Bass Strait.
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