HMAS Advance (P 83)

	HMAS Advance on Sydney Harbour in October 2013
History
Australia
Builder	Walkers Limited, Queensland
Laid down	March 1967
Launched	16 August 1967
Commissioned	24 January 1968
Decommissioned	6 February 1988
Motto	"Never Look Back"
Status	Museum ship at the Australian National Maritime Museum
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General characteristics
Class and type	Attack-class patrol boat
Displacement	100 tons standard; 146 tons full load;
Length	107.6 ft (32.8 m) length overall
Beam	20 ft (6.1 m)
Draught	6.4 ft (2.0 m) at standard load; 7.3 ft (2.2 m) at full load;
Propulsion	2 × 16-cylinder Paxman YJCM diesel engines; 3,460 shp (2,580 kW); 2 shafts;
Speed	24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Range	1,200 nmi (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement	3 officers, 16 sailors
Armament	1 × Bofors 40 mm gun; 2 × .50-calibre M2 Browning machine guns; Small arms;

HMAS Advance (P 83) was an Attack-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Constructed during 1967 and commissioned into the RAN in 1968, Advance operated from Darwin and patrolled northern Australian waters.

During her career, the patrol boat shadowed a Soviet trawler, survived Cyclone Tracy, was used for filming of the television series Patrol Boat, and participated in the RAN's first anti-terrorism patrol of the North West Shelf. Advance was replaced in 1980, but continued to operate as a training ship until she was decommissioned in 1988.

Advance was donated to the Australian National Maritime Museum, which has maintained her in an operational condition.

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