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	Fremantle class patrol boat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fremantle-class patrol boats have been the Royal Australian Navy's coastal patrol vessels since 1979.
		Their retirement was announced in 2001 and a decommissioning schedule published in 2004.
		From May 2005 they are to be replaced by the Armidale class patrol boats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fremantle_class_patrol_boat (77 words)

	Royal Australian Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The manpower of the fleet stood at four hundred officers and men and, for the next two years, ships were built for the fledgling navy.
		Majestic, although the name ship of the class, was not as near completion at the end of the war as Terrible and the RAN decided to have her construction completed with the latest Royal Navy carrier innovations of the time - the angled flight deck and a mirror landing aid.
		The RAN today is one of the most modern in the Pacific, tasked with the ability to defend the home waters, and undertake operations in farout locations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Australian_Navy (1358 words)

	IMO Discussion Board - Armidale Class Patrol Boats. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Senator Hill said the patrol boats will be able to operate in rougher seas and would improve the navy's ability to apprehend vessels suspected of illegal fishing and quarantine, customs and immigration offences.
		The project is to acquire a fleet of patrol boats to replace the RAN's existing 15-strong fleet of 42-metre, 220-tonne Fremantle-class patrol boats (FCPBs).
		Being some 14.8m longer than the Fremantles, and fitted with an active ride control system including fin stabilisers and trim tabs, the new patrol boats will be able to operate in a greater range of sea conditions, further improving their use at sea.
	www.irishmilitaryonline.com /board/printthread.php?t=1767 (2210 words)

	First Armidale Class Patrol Boat commissioned in Darwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The new boats will be able to operate in a greater range of sea conditions and will improve Navy’s capability to intercept and apprehend vessels suspected of illegal fisheries, quarantine, customs or immigration offences.
		The Armidale Class Patrol Boats will be multi-crewed (more crews than boats) using a squadron concept (where a number of crews rotate across a smaller number of boats) resulting in benefits from overall higher usage of the boats and a more coherent training and respite regime for Navy personnel.
		The Armidale Class Patrol Boats also have greater cabin and recreation space that will allow crew to perform at their optimum while at sea.
	www.minister.defence.gov.au /Hilltpl.cfm?CurrentId=4946 (443 words)

	hmas dubbo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The first HMAS Dubbo (J-251/M-251) was a Bathurst class corvette built by Morts Dock and Engineering at Balmain in New South Wales, launched on 7 March 1942 by Mrs.
		HMAS Dubbo paid off to reserve on 7 February 1947, was sold for scrap to Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha of Tokyo on 20 February 1958, and towed to Japan.
		The second HMAS Dubbo (P-214) is a Fremantle class patrol boat laid down by North Queensland Engineers and Agents at Cairns in Queensland on 9 August 1982, launched on 21 January 1984 and commissioned on 10 March 1984.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /HMAS_Dubbo.html (187 words)

	Letter: New patrol boats - 1 December 2001
		Quite apart from their lack of any useful war fighting capability, Australia’s 15 Fremantle Class patrol boats are severely limited by their size, their lack of range and their lack of a helicopter for reconnaissance.
		What makes the problem of Australia’s patrol boat fleet even worse is that the Federal Government recently issued tenders for their replacement, with a set of specifications that effectively eliminates the most suitable types of vessel from being tendered.
		What Australia desperately needs to perform the tasks of patrolling its sea borders and exclusive economic zone is not a new Coastguard bureaucracy but a high speed, long range patrol boat which is larger than the Fremantle Class yet smaller and considerably less expensive than a half billion-dollar FFG frigate.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2001dec01_let2.html (674 words)

	Southern Pearl: CHAPTER 13
		The Fremantle Class Patrol Boat is powered by MTU diesels that are rated at 30 knots but anyone that has worked on or with the Australian boats knows that they regularly exceed 40 knots when in pursuit of 'illegals'.
		The Navy Patrol Boat fleet had become expert at making it as difficult as possible in fishing Australian waters by boarding the trawlers, seizing their catch and 'escorting' the fishing boats back to Darwin where the captains and owners are prosecuted in court.
		Fortunately the Vietnamese boat people that arrived during the mid 70's assimilated extremely well into Darwin's multicultural society and the elements responsible for the spate of kidnappings in NSW have been expelled and kept out of the community.
	testbitch.ubersportingpundit.com /archives/000019.html (4044 words)

	First Armidale Class Patrol Boat arrives
		NUSHIP ARMIDALE, which was designed and built in Australia, is the first of 12 Armidale Class Patrol Bboats to have advanced systems and excellent sea-keeping capability for coastal surveillance and protecting Australia’s coastline.
		The mission trial is the final activity under this trial program, which saw the vessel sailing from Henderson, Western Australia on 22 April 2005, initially undertaking a passage to 40 degrees south to test the ship and procedures in cold and potentially rough environments before sailing north with port calls in Dampier and Broome.
		Construction of the second and third Armidale Class Boats is progressing well and the construction of follow-on boats has commenced.
	www.minister.defence.gov.au /Hilltpl.cfm?CurrentId=4838 (436 words)

	HMAS Geelong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		---- The first HMAS Geelong (J-201) was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by the Melbourne Harbour Trust at Williamstown in Victoria on 16 October 1940, launched on 22 April 1941 by Lady Dugan, wife of the Governor of Victoria, and commissioned on 16 January 1942.
		HMAS Geelong collided with the American tanker York and sank north of Langemak in New Guinea on 18 October 1944.
		---- The second HMAS Geelong (P-215) is a Fremantle class patrol boat laid down by the North Queensland Engineers and Agents at Cairns in Queensland on 15 November 1982, launched on 14 April 1984 and commissioned on 2 June 1984.
	www.mcfly.org /wik/HMAS_Geelong (123 words)

	ADF :: Online Media Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Operation Cranberry is a sea, air and land surveillance program in northern Australia, undertaken primarily by RAN Fremantle Class Patrol Boats and Army Reserve personnel from the Regional Force Surveillance Unit.
		Seaman Electronics Technician John Lockett, from HMAS Cessnock, at the helm of the patrol boat.
		Foreign fishing vessels apprehended for suspected illegal fishing in Australian waters during a patrol under Operation Cranberry are escorted to Darwin for prosecution by HMAS Cessnock.
	www.defence.gov.au /media/download/2005/Apr/20050415.cfm (577 words)

	7news national news
		The first in a fleet of new patrol boats to protect Australia's northern coast have arrived in Darwin.
		The Australian-built boats will be used for protecting Australia's coast and will replace the Navy's ageing Fremantle Class Patrol Boats.
		"The Armidale Class patrol boats are at the leading edge of international patrol boat design and construction, combining endurance, improved sea keeping and advanced onboard systems," Senator Hill said in a statement.
	seven.com.au /news/nationalnews/80151 (180 words)

	HMAS Bundaberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		HMAS Bundaberg (J-231/M-231), named for the city of Bundaberg, Queensland, was a Bathurst class corvette built by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane in Queensland, launched on 1 December 1941 by Mrs.
		HMAS Bundaberg paid off to reserve on 26 March 1946 and sold for scrap to the Kinoshita Company of Japan on 6 January 1961.
		---- It was announced in 1980 that a Fremantle class patrol boat was to be named Bundaberg but the vessel was never ordered.
	www.mcfly.org /wik/HMAS_Bundaberg (93 words)

	hmas gawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The first HMAS Gawler (J-188/B-241/A-115) was a Bathurst class corvette built by the BHP Shipyard at Whyalla in South Australia, launched on 4 October 1941 by Lady Duncan, wife of Sir Walter Duncan, and commissioned on 14 August 1942.
		HMAS Gawler paid off on 5 April 1946, was transferred to the Turkish Navy and renamed Ayvalik.
		The second HMAS Gawler (P-212) is a Fremantle class patrol boat laid down by the North Queensland Engineers and Agents at Cairns in Queensland on 18 January 1982, launched on 9 July 1983 and commissioned on 27 August 1983.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /HMAS_Gawler.html (176 words)

	printarticle. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Luxury boat builder Austal needs to secure a big order soon or face a sharp decline in earnings in 2002-03.
		The luxury yacht market is expected to deliver earnings growth for Austal in the immediate term, despite its luxury yacht subsidiary Oceanfast posting a small loss in 2001-02 as it was beefed up to cope with expected demand.
		Mr McKinnon said the word-of-mouth luxury boat market was very big, and Oceanfast had already won orders, despite having delivered only one completed boat on which to build its reputation in the three years since Austal took it over.
	www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/printArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/08/20/1029114107169.html (399 words)

	Op Anode :: Fact Sheets :: Minor War Vessels
		The Fremantle Class Patrol Boats (FCPBs), perform one of the more visible of the Navy's tasks - patrolling Australia's extensive coastline and Economic Exclusion Zone.
		HMAS Fremantle, the first of the class, was built in the UK while the remainder were built in Cairns, close to their primary area of operations by North Queensland Engineers and Agents (NQEA).
		The RAN is now considering options for the eventual replacement of the FCPBs, which were commissioned between 1980 and 1984.
	www.defence.gov.au /opanode/factsheets/patrolboat.htm (148 words)

	Virtual Sailor - Virtual Sailing Simulator
		The HMAS Hobart was a Charles F. Adams class guided missile destroyer in the Royal Australia Navy (DDG 39), built in the United States of America and commissioned in 1965 in Boston.
		This boat was desigend by Simon Richardson and repainted by
		This add-on has also an ICEBERG which is used as an add-on boat and can sink any boat it collides with, and also a small sailboat, an additional ice texture is included for use a sea texture to represent a frozen sea.
	www.hangsim.com /vs/boats.php?dzone=nav (1971 words)

	Sharktrust - shark conservation, shark information, shark news, shark features, shark articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In the early hours of Tuesday Fremantle class navy patrol boat HMAS Launceston caught two motorised Indonesian fishing vessels 90 nautical miles north-west of Cape Wessel and 240 nautical miles north-east of Darwin.
		Earlier this week 22 Thai fishermen on an Indonesian fishing vessel were apprehended off the coast near Nhulunbuy by navy patrol boat HMAS Gladstone.
		The boat was carrying a large illegal haul of reef fish.David Crisafulli, adviser to Federal Fisheries Minister Ian McDonald, said illegal poachers in northern waters were becoming more barbaric and better equipped.
	www.sharktrust.org /cgi/main.asp?newsfirst=227 (296 words)

	USS BLENNY
		The main difference between the Balao and Gato class boats was the thickness of the pressure hull.
		She began her first patrol on November 10 and was broken in quickly when a failed torpedo attack on a Japanese destroyer garnered a depth charge pummeling.
		She completed her last patrol by sweeping the ocean clear of numerous small fishing craft, sampans, and junks that were stopped and inspected for war materials the Empire so desperately needed.
	www.brazosport.cc.tx.us /~nstevens/Blenindx.html (708 words)

	Re Gulliver's appeal
		On 31 May 1985 the appellant was the Commanding Officer of HMAS Wollongong, a Fremantle Class Patrol Boat.
		Did fail to adopt a blind pilotage organisation as required by Article 0318 of Fremantle Class Orders, and as detailed in Commanding Officers' Standing Orders and Annex V of HMAS Wollongong's Navigational Data Book, in that the Navigating Officer was not employed as a dedicated Blind Pilotage Officer.
		Two officers from the Fremantle-class patrol boat hmas wollongong, which grounded off Gabo Island off the north-eastern coast of Victoria on May 31, 1985, are to face legal proceedings.
	www.fedcourt.gov.au /aboutct/defenceappeals/decisions/gulliver27031986.html (5051 words)

	Brudirect.com - Local News
		The Australian Fremantle Class Patrol Boat, the HMAS Dubbo, arrived at the Muara Naval Base early yesterday morning to join their Bruneian counterparts in the bilateral exercise.
		The HMAS Dubbo is one of 14 patrol boats of the Royal Australian Navy that principally contribute to Australia's fisheries protection, immigration, customs and drug law enforcement operations.
		Dubbo's arrival in Brunei Darussalam clearly illustrated the close inter-connectedness of the navies of Brunei and Australia, which is further manifested in the warm and cordial bilateral relations between the two countries.
	www.brudirect.com /DailyInfo/News/Archive/Aug04/130804/nite06.htm (232 words)

	Defence Models and Graphics - FORGAC Patrol Boat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In September 2001, FORGACS Dockyard in Newcastle, NSW approached DMG to build a model of their contender for the “FREMANTLE Class” Patrol Boat Replacement for the Royal Australian Navy.
		The model was used as part of FORGACS bid for the contract and was delivered to Navy Office in Canberra, for their appraisal in November 2001.
		The winning yard will be announced in the first half of 2003, for the first Vessel to be delivered to the RAN by the end of 2004.
	www.defencemodels.com.au /Projects/FORGACSPatrolBoat.asp (228 words)

	Australian High Commission - Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		An Australian navy Fremantle Class Patrol Boat, HMAS Gawler will arrive in Suva tomorrow on a goodwill visit.
		The boat, which leaves Suva on Easter Monday, will not be open for inspection during the visit.
		HMAS Gawler’s visit is part of the regular program of visits by Australian naval vessels throughout the Pacific region to promote co-operation between navies, assist in regional Maritime Surveillance and promote goodwill.
	www.austhighcomm.org.fj /media/2003/hmas_gawler.htm (146 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Australian Navy patrol boats to make way for new fleet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Fremantle Class Patrol boat will be the first of its type to be decommissioned as the Royal Australian Navy's new Armidale Class Patrol boat fleet takes up the role of patrolling Australia's maritime borders.
		Our reporter Heather Stewart says HMAS Cessnock and 14 other Fremantle Class Patrol Boats have been protecting Australian waters from border intrusion by illegal immigrants and foreign fishermen, for 22 years.
		In late June it will be the first of the fleet to be decommissioned as a dozen new Armidale Class Patrol boats assume the role over the next two years.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/news/stories/s1364842.htm (334 words)

	Audit Report - The Armidale Class Patrol Boat Project: Project Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Projected operating costs for the FCPB capability for 2003–04 was $289.7 million, comprising $149.4 million in employee costs (51.6 per cent); $100.6 million in supplier and inventory expenses (34.7 per cent); and $39.7 million in other costs (13.7 per cent), of which most are depreciation costs.
		The primary basis for this conclusion is that Government bears substantial risks and rewards of the [patrol boats] given they have use of the ships for the first 15 years and retains substantially all the residual benefits of the [patrol boats] at the end of the lease period.
		DSTO used the Defence operational concept and determined, via modelling techniques, that a fleet of 15 replacement patrol boats would be required to reliably meet the requirement for concurrency of operations in both northern and southern waters.
	anao.gov.au /WebSite.nsf/Publications/5BCE899DF5912437CA256FB100023734 (11958 words)

	Rocking the boat - theage.com.au
		The boat, the Minasa Bone, arrived on a beach on one of the Tiwi Islands on November 5.
		Instead, their 12-metre boat was promptly hooked up to the 42-metre HMAS Geelong and towed 20 miles out to sea.
		The spot the asylum seekers landed on, Melville Island, is run by the Tiwi, an Aboriginal group that is culturally very different from its mainland cousins.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/11/21/1069027320816.html?from=storyrhs (740 words)

	[No title]
		ADI’s patrol boat would provide the Navy with up to 30 years operational life, he said.
		ADI will build its patrol boat from composite materials which require minimum maintenance and are extremely long lasting.
		ADI’s competitors for the patrol boat contract will use steel or aluminium to build their vessels.
	www.adi-limited.com /newsdocs/2003225120000.doc (409 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Fremantle Class Patrol Boats, MTU has been a major success story of Australian Industry Involvement (AII).
		These processes are a spin-off from the logistic support of the Fremantle Class Patrol Boat (FCPB) main propulsion engines and the engine assembly processes developed for the Australia/ New Zealand Navy ANZAC ship program.
		The intellectual property rights and restoration processes have been certified by MTU Friedrichshafen under the engine manufacturer’s quality system to extend the service life of major engine components including cylinder blocks, crankshafts and cylinder heads - with full factory warranty.
	www.mtudda.com.au /index/frameset/markets/defence/ausindusinvol/ausinvolv.htm (326 words)

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