HMAS Advance - Definition

Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	March 1967
Launched:	16 August 1967
Commissioned:	24 January 1968
Decommissioned:	6 February 1988
Fate:	Museum ship.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	146 tons
Length:	32 m
Beam:	6.1 m
Draught:
Propulsion:	Two 16 cylinder turbocharged diesel engines developing 3,460 hp, driving two shafts
Speed:	24 knots
Range:
Complement:	25
Armament:	One 40 mm gun One 81 mm mortar Two .50 caliber machine guns Mines and depth charges could also be carried
Aircraft:
Motto:

HMAS Advance (P-83) was an Australian Attack-class patrol boat laid down by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane in Queensland in March 1967, launched on 16 August 1967, and commissioned on 24 January 1968. Advance paid off on 6 February 1988 and was transferred to the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour in Sydney.