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Type: Bathurst Class Minesweeper
Displacement: 650 tons (standard)
Length: 186 feet
Beam: 31 feet
Builder: Melbourne Harbour Trust, Williamstown
Launched: 10 December 1940
Machinery: Triple expansion, 2 shafts
Speed: 15 knots
Armament: 1 x 4-inch gun 3 x Oerlikons (later 2) 1 Bofors (later) Machine guns Depth charge chutes and throwers
Complement: 85
Type: Anzac Class Frigate
Displacement: 3,600 tonnes
Length: 118 metres, approx 354 ft
Beam: 14.8m (approx 44.4 feet)
Builder: Tenix Defence, Williamstown
Launched: May 25, 2002
Machinery: One LM 2500 Gas Turbine two MTU diesels driving two twin controllable pitch propellers
Speed: 27 knots
Armament: 5 inch/54 Mk45 Mod 2 gun, Evolved Sea Sparrow Mk41Mod 5 eight cell vertical system, Two triple Mk32 torpedo tubes, SRBC Mk36 Mod 1 chaff launcher, One Kaman SH-2G(A) Super Seasprite Helicopter, Nulka Active Missile Decoy System
Complement: 164

 

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