HMAS Advance (P 83)

HMAS Advance (P 83)

HMAS "Advance" (P 83) was an "Attack" class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy.

She was 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" operated out of HMAS "Coonawarra" in Darwin, Northern Territory between 1967 and 1978.Information board at the Australian National Maritime Museum] During her career, "Advance" performed many duties, including costal surveillance, customs and immigration enforcement, training, and rescue. She survived Cyclone Tracy in 1974, shadowed a suspected Russian spy vessel, assisted in hydrographic surveys of northern Australian waters, and portrayed the fictional HMAS "Ambush" in the ABC TV series "Patrol Boat".

"Advance" was decommissioned on 6 February 1988, and was transferred to the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour in Sydney, where she remains as of 2008.

References

External links

* [http://www.hnsa.org/ships/advance.htm HNSA Web Page: HMAS Advance]
* [http://www.anmm.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=517 Australian National Maritime Museum: HMAS Advance]


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