HMAS Childers (ACPB 93)
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| Career (Australia) |  |
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| Launched: | 18th December 2006 |
| Commissioned: | 7 July 2007 |
| Homeport: | HMAS Cairns, Cairns |
| Motto: | "Serve With Honour" |
| Fate: | Active |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 270 tonnes |
| Length: | 56.8 metres (186') |
| Beam: | 9.5 metres (31') |
| Draught: | 2.7 metres (9') |
| Propulsion: | 2x MTU 16V M70 2,320 kW diesels driving twin screws through ZF transmissions |
| Speed: | 25 knots (46 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,000 nautical miles (5,556 km) |
| Boats and landing craft carried: |
2x Zodiac 7.2 m (24') waterjet seaboats |
| Complement: | 21 (accommodation for 41) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
low light optical communication direction finding radar |
| Armament: | 1x Rafael Typhoon 25mm naval stabilised deck gun 2x 12.7mm machine guns |
HMAS Childers (ACPB 93) is an Australian Armidale class patrol boat. Childers was commissioned in Cairns, Queensland on 7 July 2007. Childers is based in Cairns and performs border protection and fisheries protection patrols.
HMAS Childers is the second ship of this name to serve in the Royal Australian Navy and is named after the towns of Childers, Queensland and Childers, Victoria. The first HMAS Childers was a torpedo boat which served in the Victorian, Commonwealth and Royal Australian Navies from 1884 to 1918.
[edit] References
- Australian Department of Defence press release Navy's Eleventh Armidale Class Patrol Boat Commissions, 7 July 2007.
- Navy News A Tale of two towns. Edition 5008, 17 May, 2007
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