HMAS Armidale (ACPB 83)
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 HMAS Armidale at Darling Harbour in January 2008. She was present for the 2008 Sea Power Conference. |
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| Career (Australia (RAN)) |  |
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| Namesake: | City of Armidale, New South Wales |
| Builder: | Austal Ships |
| Commissioned: | 24 June 2005 |
| Homeport: | HMAS Coonawarra, Darwin |
| Motto: | "Stand Firm" |
| Status: | Active |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Armidale class patrol boat |
| Displacement: | 270 tonnes |
| Length: | 56.8 metres (186 ft) |
| Beam: | 9.5 metres (31 ft) |
| Draught: | 2.7 metres (9 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2 x 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: |
2 x Zodiac 7.2 metre (24 ft) waterjet seaboats |
| Crew: | 21 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
low light optical communication direction finding radar |
| Armament: | 1 x Rafael Typhoon 25 mm naval stabilised deck gun 2 x 12.7 mm machine guns |
HMAS Armidale (ACPB 83) is the lead ship of the Armidale class patrol boats which are currently being built for the Royal Australian Navy. Armidale was officially commissioned in Darwin on 24 June 2005. Armidale is based in Darwin and performs border protection and fisheries protection patrols.
The current HMAS Armidale is the second ship of this name to serve in the Royal Australian Navy. The original HMAS Armidale was a Bathurst class corvette which was sunk by Japanese aircraft on 1 December 1942.
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