Fremantle-class patrol boat
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The Fremantle-class patrol boats were coastal patrol vessels operated by the Royal Australian Navy from 1979 to 2007. Designed by British shipbuilder Brooke Marine and constructed in Australia by NQEA
HMAS Townsville in 1990
Cessnock underway in the mid-1980s
Gladstone in 2010, awaiting preservation in its namesake city
HMAS Hammersley alongside at HMAS Waterhen
Armidale-class patrol boat
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The Armidale class was a class of patrol boats built for the Royal Australian Navy. Planning for a class of vessels to replace the fifteen Fremantle-class patrol boats began in 1993 as a joint project
Fremantle-class patrol boat
…option for five more. Their retirement was announced in 2001 and a decommissioning schedule published in 2004. From May 2005 they were replaced by the Armidale-class patrol boats with the last two Fremantles decommissioning in May 2007. Most of the class were scrapped, with two marked for preservation as museum…
HMAS Broome
HMAS Armidale, lead ship of the class, at Darling Harbour in January 2008
The main gun aboard HMAS Armidale
HMAS Bundaberg entering Sydney Harbour in October 2013