HMAS Mermaid (A 02)
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Career (Australia) | |
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Builder: | Eglo Engineering, Adelaide[1] |
Launched: | 28 September 1989[2] |
Commissioned: | 4 December 1989[2] |
Motto: | "No task too arduous" |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 310 tonnes[2] |
Length: | 36.6 metres[2] |
Beam: | 13.7 metres[2] |
Draught: | 2.2 metres[1] |
Propulsion: | 2 Detroit V12 diesel engines[2] |
Speed: | 11 knots[2] |
Range: | 3500 nautical miles[2] |
Complement: | 15[2] |
Sensors and processing systems: |
2 x echo sounders, 2 x side-scan sonar, searchlight sonar[1] |
HMAS Mermaid (A 02) is Paluma class survey motor launches in the Royal Australian Navy. She is a twin hulled hydrographic survey ship designed to operate in shoaling and shallow reefs.[2] The ship was launched on 28 September 1989 and commissioned on 4 December 1989.[2]
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