Broom sweeps the Witch

HMAS Ipswich undergoing refit.

The refit broom has swept through the Witch - HMAS Ipswich - and doesn’t she look great?

The 250-tonne Fremantle Class patrol boat, No 209, under the command of LEUT
Belinda Wood, has just come through an 11 week $1.6m refit docking at NQEA’s Cairns facility.

She was handed back to the Navy on August 3 and sailed back to HMAS Cairns.

It was the last major refit of a Fremantle Class boat.

NQEA has done 30 dockings of Fremantles during the past 24 years.

The work has cost $25 million.

A large part of these refit packages have been done by local contractors and civilian industry within the Cairns region.

Ipswich will begin work-ups in the coming weeks.

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