HMAS Buccaneer (P 100)
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| Career | Missing image Royal-Australian-Navy-Ensign.png Royal Australian Navy Ensign |
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| Launched: | 14 September 1968 |
| Commissioned: | 5 January 1973(?) |
| Decommissioned: | 27 July 1984 |
| Fate: | Sunk as a target in 1988. |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 146 tons |
| Length: | 32 m |
| Beam: | 6.1 m |
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| Propulsion: | Two 16 cylinder turbocharged diesel engines developing 3,460 hp, driving two shafts |
| Speed: | 24 knots |
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| Complement: | 25 |
| Armament: | One 40 mm gun One 81 mm mortar Two .50 caliber machine guns Mines and depth charges could also be carried |
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HMAS Buccaneer (P-100) was an Attack-class patrol boat built by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane in Queensland, launched on 14 September 1968 and commissioned on 5 January 1973. Buccaneer paid off on 27 July 1984 and was sunk by gunfire on 8 October 1988.
| Attack-class patrol boat |
| Aitape | Attack | Acute | Adroit | Advance | Archer | Ardent | Arrow | Assail | Aware | Bandolier | Barbette | Barricade | Bombard | Buccaneer | Ladava | Lae | Madang | Samarai | Bayonet |
| List of ships of the Royal Australian Navy |