HMAS BATHURST ACP 85
Namesake: City of Bathurst, New South Wales
Commissioned: 10 February 2006
Homeport: Darwin
Motto: "Strike Hard"
Honours and awards:
Two inherited battle honours
Status: active
General characteristics
Class and type: Armidale class patrol boat
Displacement: 300 tons standard load
Length: 56.8 m
Beam: 9.7 m
Draught: 2.7 m
Propulsion:
2 × MTU 4000 16V 6,225 horsepower (4,642 kws) diesels driving twin propellers
Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range: 3,000 nautical miles (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Endurance: 21 days standard, 42 days maximum
Boats and landing craft carried:
2 × Zodiac 7.2 m (24 ft) RHIBs
Complement: 21 standard, 29 maximum
Sensors and processing systems:
Bridgemaster E surface search/navigation radar
Electronic warfare and decoys:
Prism III radar warning system
Toplite electro-optical detection system
Warrlock direction finding system
Armament:
1 × Rafael Typhoon stabilised gun mount fitted with a 25 mm (1 in) M242 Bushmaster autocannon
2 × 12.7 mms (0.5 in) machine guns
The Armidale class is a class of patrol boats built for the Royal Australian Navy. Planning for a class of 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.