HMAS Maryborough (ACPB 95)

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Career (Australia) RAN Ensign
Namesake: City's of Maryborough, Queensland and Maryborough, Victoria
Commissioned: 8 December 2008
Homeport: HMAS Coonawarra, Darwin
Motto: "Work In Unison"
General characteristics
Class and type: Armidale class patrol boat
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 Maryborough (ACPB 95) is an Australian Armidale-class patrol boat. Maryborough was commissioned at Brisbane on 8 December 2007.

HMAS Maryborough is the second ship of this name to serve in the Royal Australian Navy, and is named after the city's of Maryborough, Queensland and Maryborough, Victoria.

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