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HMAS Adroit (at right) with three other Attack class patrol boats |
| Career (Royal Australian Navy) |
 |
| Builder: |
Evans Deakin and Company |
| Laid down: |
August 1967 |
| Launched: |
3 February 1968 |
| Commissioned: |
17 August 1968 |
| Decommissioned: |
28 March 1992 |
| Fate: |
Sunk as target |
| General characteristics |
| Class and type: |
Attack class patrol boat |
| Displacement: |
146 tons |
| Length: |
32 metres |
| Beam: |
6.1 metres |
| Propulsion: |
Two 16 cylinder turbocharged diesel engines developing 3,460 hp, driving two shafts |
| Speed: |
24 knots |
| Complement: |
25 |
| Armament: |
1 x 40 mm gun, 1 x 81 mm mortar, 2 x .50 caliber machine guns. Mines and depth charges could also be carried |
HMAS Adroit (P 82) was an Attack-class patrol boat laid down by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane in Queensland in August 1967, launched on 3 February 1968 and commissioned on 17 August 1968.
Adroit paid off on 28 March 1992 and was sunk as a target by A-4 Skyhawk aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force west of Rottnest Island on 8 August 1994.
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