HMAS Mermaid (A 02)

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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]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c HMAS Paluma. Survey Vessels. Royal Australian Navy. Retrieved on 2007-07-07.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k HMAS Mermaid. Survey Vessels. Royal Australian Navy. Retrieved on 2007-07-07.

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