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HMAS Attack
Occasional Paper 51: The Attack Class Patrol Boat
April 2019 By Dennis J Weatherall JP TM AFAITT(L) LSM Volunteer Researcher, Naval Historical Society of Australia Patrol boats have proven to be the most flexible and versatile elements of ...
Australian Naval History on 11 February 1985
HMAS ATTACK, name-ship of the RAN’s Attack class patrol boats, sailed from Sydney streaming a 38.7 metre paying off pennant. The patrol boat was transferred to the Indonesian Navy as ...
Australian Naval History on 31 October 1984
The Australian Government announced that HMA Ships ATTACK, BARBETTE, and BUCCANEER, (patrol boats), would be transferred as a gift to the Indonesian Navy. ...
Australian Naval History on 30 May 1980
HMA Ships ATTACK, ADVANCE, and BUCCANEER, (patrol boats), commenced offshore oil rig patrols. The patrols were organized to prevent terrorist attacks on the oil rigs ...
Australian Naval History on 25 December 1974
Cyclone Tracy struck and leveled the city of Darwin. The Naval Headquarters building was destroyed, and the Naval Officer Commanding Northern Australia, (CAPT E. E. Johnston, OBE, RAN), and two ...
Australian Naval History on 9 November 1968
HMA Ships Attack and Sydney (III) left Adelaide and proceeded to cross the Great Australian Bight in atrocious weather. Sydney’s captain, Captain Domara Clarke, MVO, DSC, RAN, later reported that ...
Australian Naval History on 3 September 1968
HMAS ATTACK, (patrol boat), completed a two-month operation shadowing the Russian trawling vessel VAN GOGH, in the Gulf of Carpentaria. ...
Australian Naval History on 17 November 1967
The Attack class patrol boat HMAS ATTACK, (LCDR R. J. R. Pennock, RAN), the lead vessel of the Attack class patrol boats, was commissioned. ATTACK was laid down in Evans ...