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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Patrol vessels of the Royal Australian Navy, RV Triton, Armidale class patrol boat, Fremantle class patrol boat, MV Oceanic Viking, HMAS Broome, HMAS Launceston, Planned Australian offshore combatant vessel, HMAS Maryborough, HMAS Wollongong, HMAS Glenelg, HMAS Advance, HMAS Pirie, HMAS Larrakia, HMAS Childers, HMAS Armidale, HMS Fantome, Bay class patrol boat, HMAS Ararat, HMAS Bundaberg, HMAS Albany, HMAS Maitland, HMAS Bathurst, HMAS Vigilant, HMAS Kuru, Attack class patrol boat, HMAS Fremantle, HMAS Doomba, HMAS Yarra, HMAS Patricia Cam, HMAS Heros, HMAS Huon, HMVS Childers, HMAS Townsville, HMVS Countess of Hopetoun, HMAS Gascoyne, HMAS Aware, HMAS Ipswich, HMAS Diamantina, HMAS Norman, HMAS Ardent, HMAS Gladstone, HMAS Mavie, HMAS Assail, HMAS Acute, HMAS Dubbo, HMAS Arrow, HMAS Attack, HMAS Madang, HMAS Samarai, HMAS Barricade, HMAS Ladava, HMAS Lae, HMAS Bombard, HMAS Adroit, HMAS Bayonet, HMAS Archer, HMAS Cessnock, HMAS Gawler, HMAS Aitape, HMAS Whyalla, HMAS Bunbury, HMAS Geraldton, Protector class small patrol boat, HMAS Bendigo, HMAS Geelong, HMAS Buccaneer, HMAS Warrnambool. Excerpt: The Armidale class is a class of patrol boats built for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Planning for a class of twelve vessels to replace the fifteen Fremantle class patrol boats began in 1993 as a joint project with the Royal Malaysian Navy, but was cancelled when Malaysia pulled out of the process. The project was reopened in 1999 under the designation SEA 1444, with the RAN as the sole participant. Of the seven proposals tendered, the Austal Ships/Defence Maritime Services proposal based on an enlarged Bay-class patrol boat was selected. The first vessel, HMAS Armidale, commissioned into the RAN in June 2005. Two more patrol boats were ordered in 2005, bringing the class to fourteen. The Armidales are longer and heavie...
