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|Ship country=Australia
|Ship country=Australia
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Australia|naval}}
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Australia|naval}}
|Ship namesake=City of [[Ipswich, Queensland]]
|Ship namesake=City of [[Ipswich, Queensland|Ipswich]]
|Ship builder=North Queensland Engineers and Agents
|Ship builder=[[NQEA]], [[Cairns]]
|Ship laid down=29 October 1980
|Ship laid down=29 October 1980
|Ship launched=25 September 1982
|Ship launched=25 September 1982
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|Ship beam={{convert|25.25|ft|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam={{convert|25.25|ft|abbr=on}}
|Ship draught={{convert|5.75|ft|abbr=on}}
|Ship draught={{convert|5.75|ft|abbr=on}}
|Ship propulsion=2 MTU series 538 diesel engines, {{convert|3200|shp|abbr=on}}, 2 propellers
|Ship propulsion=2 [[MTU Friedrichshafen|MTU]] series 538 diesel engines, {{convert|3200|shp|abbr=on}}, 2 propellers
|Ship speed={{convert|30|kn}}
|Ship speed={{convert|30|kn}}
|Ship range={{cvt|5000|nmi}} at {{convert|5|kn}}
|Ship range={{cvt|5000|nmi}} at {{convert|5|kn}}
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|Ship sensors=
|Ship sensors=
|Ship EW=
|Ship EW=
|Ship armament=*One general purpose 40 mm/60 Bofors gun
|Ship armament=*1 [[Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun|Bofors 40 mm/60 gun]]
*Two 12.7 mm machine guns
*2 12.7 mm machine guns
*One 81&nbsp;mm mortar (removed later)<!-- when? -->
*1 81&nbsp;mm mortar (removed later)
|Ship notes=
|Ship notes=
}}
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==Design and construction==
==Design and construction==
{{main article|Fremantle-class patrol boat}}
{{main article|Fremantle-class patrol boat}}
Starting in the late 1960s, planning began for a new class of patrol boat to replace the {{sclass|Attack|patrol boat|4}}, with designs calling for improved [[seakeeping]] capability, and updated weapons and equipment.<ref>Mitchell, ''Farewell to the Fremantle class'', p. 105</ref> The ''Fremantle''s had a full load displacement of {{convert|220|t}}, were {{convert|137.6|ft}} [[length overall|long overall]], had a beam of {{convert|24.25|ft}}, and a maximum draught of {{convert|5.75|ft}}.<ref name=Gillett89>Gillett, ''Australian and New Zealand Warships since 1946'', p. 89</ref> Main propulsion machinery consisted of two MTU series 538 diesel engines, which supplied {{convert|3200|shp}} to the two propeller shafts.<ref name=Gillett89/> Exhaust was not expelled through a funnel, like most ships, but through vents below the waterline.<ref name=Gillett88/> The patrol boat could reach a maximum speed of {{convert|30|kn}}, and had a maximum range of {{convert|5000|nmi}} at {{convert|5|kn}}.<ref name=Gillett89/> The ship's company consisted of 22 personnel.<ref name=Gillett89/> Each patrol boat was armed with a single [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|40 mm Bofors]] gun as main armament, supplemented by two [[M2 Browning machine gun|.50 cal Browning machineguns]] and an 81 mm mortar,<ref name=Gillett89/> although the mortar was removed from all ships sometime after 1988.{{citation needed|date=June 2011}} The main weapon was originally to be two 30 mm guns on a twin-mount, but the reconditioned Bofors were selected to keep costs down; provision was made to install an updated weapon later in the class' service life, but this did not eventuate.<ref name=Gillett88>Gillett, ''Australian and New Zealand Warships since 1946'', p. 88</ref><ref name=Jones222>Jones, in Stevens, ''The Royal Australian Navy'', p. 222</ref>
Starting in the late 1960s, planning began for a new class of patrol boat to replace the {{sclass|Attack|patrol boat|4}}, with designs calling for improved [[seakeeping]] capability, and updated weapons and equipment.<ref>Mitchell, ''Farewell to the Fremantle class'', p. 105</ref> The ''Fremantle''s had a full load displacement of {{convert|220|t}}, were {{convert|137.6|ft}} [[length overall|long overall]], had a beam of {{convert|24.25|ft}}, and a maximum draught of {{convert|5.75|ft}}.<ref name=Gillett89>Gillett, ''Australian and New Zealand Warships since 1946'', p. 89</ref> Main propulsion machinery consisted of two [[MTU Friedrichshafen|MTU]] series 538 diesel engines, which supplied {{convert|3200|shp}} to the two propeller shafts.<ref name=Gillett89/> Exhaust was not expelled through a funnel, like most ships, but through vents below the waterline.<ref name=Gillett88/> The patrol boat could reach a maximum speed of {{convert|30|kn}}, and had a maximum range of {{convert|5000|nmi}} at {{convert|5|kn}}.<ref name=Gillett89/> The ship's company consisted of 22 personnel.<ref name=Gillett89/> Each patrol boat was armed with a single [[Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun|Bofors 40mm gun]] as main armament, supplemented by two [[M2 Browning machine gun|.50 cal Browning machineguns]] and an 81 mm mortar,<ref name=Gillett89/> although the mortar was removed from all ships sometime after 1988.{{citation needed|date=June 2011}} The main weapon was originally to be two 30 mm guns on a twin-mount, but the reconditioned Bofors were selected to keep costs down; provision was made to install an updated weapon later in the class' service life, but this did not eventuate.<ref name=Gillett88>Gillett, ''Australian and New Zealand Warships since 1946'', p. 88</ref><ref name=Jones222>Jones, in Stevens, ''The Royal Australian Navy'', p. 222</ref>


''Ipswich'' was laid down by the [[North Queensland Engineers and Agents]] in [[Cairns, Queensland]] on 29 October 1980, launched on 25 September 1982, and commissioned into the RAN on 13 November 1982.<ref name=jfs85p26>Moore, ''Jane's Fighting Ships 1985–86'', p. 26</ref>
''Ipswich'' was laid down by [[NQEA]] in [[Cairns]], [[Queensland]] on 29 October 1980, launched on 25 September 1982, and commissioned into the RAN on 13 November 1982.<ref name=jfs85p26>Moore, ''Jane's Fighting Ships 1985–86'', p. 26</ref>


==Operational history==
==Operational history==
⚫
During October and November 2006, ''Ipswich'' was the primary ship used for filming the 13-episode Australian television drama series ''[[Sea Patrol (TV series)|Sea Patrol]]''.<ref name=rollings>{{cite news |first=Barry |last=Rollings |title=Ipswich switches over |url=http://www.defence.gov.au/news/NAVYNEWS/editions/4920/topstories/story07.htm |work=[[Navy News (Australia)|Navy News]]|date=2 November 2006 |accessdate=30 May 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422011357/http://www.defence.gov.au/news/NAVYNEWS/editions/4920/topstories/story07.htm |archivedate=22 April 2008 }}</ref> ''Ipswich'' was rebadged as the fictional HMAS ''Hammersley'' (pennant number 202), and spent six weeks operating off [[Dunk Island]] with both the show's cast and her normal crew aboard.<ref name=rollings/> Footage of ''Ipswich'' at sea was mixed with scenes shot on and around sister ship {{HMAS|Wollongong|FCPB 206|6}} while the latter was docked in Sydney.<ref name=rollings/>
{{expand section|date=June 2011}}
⚫
During October and November 2006, ''Ipswich'' was the primary ship used for filming the 13-episode Australian television drama series ''[[Sea Patrol (TV series)|Sea Patrol]]''.<ref name=rollings>{{cite news |first=Barry |last=Rollings |title=Ipswich switches over |url=http://www.defence.gov.au/news/NAVYNEWS/editions/4920/topstories/story07.htm |work=Navy News |date=2 November 2006 |accessdate=30 May 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422011357/http://www.defence.gov.au/news/NAVYNEWS/editions/4920/topstories/story07.htm |archivedate=22 April 2008 }}</ref> ''Ipswich'' was rebadged as the fictional HMAS ''Hammersley'' (pennant number 202), and spent six weeks operating off [[Dunk Island]] with both the show's cast and her normal crew aboard.<ref name=rollings/> Footage of ''Ipswich'' at sea was mixed with scenes shot on and around sister ship {{HMAS|Wollongong|FCPB 206|6}} while the latter was docked in Sydney.<ref name=rollings/>


==Fate==
==Fate==
''Ipswich'' was decommissioned on 11 May 2007, in a joint ceremony with {{HMAS|Townsville|FCPB 205|6}}.<ref name=Lastfre>{{cite journal |title=Last of the Fremantles bow out |work=The Navy |volume=69 |issue=3 |publisher=[[Navy League of Australia]] |page=28 |date=September 2007}}</ref> The two patrol boats were the last of the class in active service.<ref name=Lastfre/> The patrol boat was broken up for scrap in Darwin during 2007, at a cost of $450,000 to the Australian government.<ref name=ANAOdisposal>{{Citation |author=Australian National Audit Office |date=5 February 2015 |title=Management of the Disposal of Specialist Military Equipment |type=Report |url=http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22publications%2Ftabledpapers%2F7941c678-26dd-4f9e-8822-4ad155db9698%22 |publisher=Government of Australia |page=62 |accessdate=24 April 2015}}</ref> The patrol boat's [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|Bofors gun]] was incorporated into a naval memorial cairn shaped like ''Ipswich''{{'}}s bow in Queens Park, Ipswich.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.qt.com.au/story/2011/04/12/naval-tribute-nearly-shipshape-in-park-queens/ |title=Naval tribute nearly shipshape |last=Foley |first=Peter |date=12 April 2011 |work=The Queensland Times |accessdate=15 April 2011}}</ref>
''Ipswich'' was decommissioned on 11 May 2007, in a joint ceremony with {{HMAS|Townsville|FCPB 205|6}}.<ref name=Lastfre>{{cite journal |title=Last of the Fremantles bow out |work=The Navy |volume=69 |issue=3 |publisher=[[Navy League of Australia]] |page=28 |date=September 2007}}</ref> The two patrol boats were the last of the class in active service.<ref name=Lastfre/> The patrol boat was broken up for scrap in Darwin during 2007, at a cost of $450,000 to the Australian government.<ref name=ANAOdisposal>{{Citation |author=[[Australian National Audit Office]]|date=5 February 2015 |title=Management of the Disposal of Specialist Military Equipment |type=Report |url=http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22publications%2Ftabledpapers%2F7941c678-26dd-4f9e-8822-4ad155db9698%22 |publisher=Government of Australia |page=62 |accessdate=24 April 2015}}</ref> The patrol boat's [[Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun|Bofors gun]] was incorporated into a naval memorial cairn shaped like ''Ipswich''{{'}}s bow in Queens Park, Ipswich.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.qt.com.au/story/2011/04/12/naval-tribute-nearly-shipshape-in-park-queens/ |title=Naval tribute nearly shipshape |last=Foley |first=Peter |date=12 April 2011 |work=[[Queensland Times]]|accessdate=15 April 2011}}</ref>


==Citations==
==Citations==
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==References==
==References==
*{{cite book |last=Gillett |first=Ross |title=Australian and New Zealand Warships since 1946 |year=1988 |publisher=Child & Associates |location=Brookvale, NSW |isbn=0-86777-219-0 |oclc=23470364}}
*{{cite book |last=Gillett |first=Ross |title=Australian and New Zealand Warships since 1946 |year=1988 |publisher=Child & Associates |location=Brookvale|isbn=0-86777-219-0 |oclc=23470364}}
*{{cite book |last=Jones |first=Peter |editor=Stevens, David |title=The Royal Australian Navy |series=The Australian Centenary History of Defence (vol III) |year=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=South Melbourne, VIC |isbn=0-19-555542-2 |oclc=50418095 |chapter=Towards Self Reliance}}
*{{cite book |last=Jones |first=Peter |editor=Stevens, David |title=The Royal Australian Navy |series=The Australian Centenary History of Defence (vol III) |year=2001 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=South Melbourne|isbn=0-19-555542-2 |oclc=50418095 |chapter=Towards Self Reliance}}
*{{cite book |last=Mitchell |first=Brett |editor=Forbes, Andrew |editor2=Lovi, Michelle |title=Australian Maritime Issues 2006 |publisher=Sea Power Centre - Australia |year=2007 |series=Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs |issue=19 |issn=1327-5658 |chapter=Farewell to the Fremantle Class |isbn=0-642-29644-8 |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/enwiki/w/images/PIAMA19.pdf |accessdate=12 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613185344/http://www.navy.gov.au/enwiki/w/images/PIAMA19.pdf |archivedate=13 June 2011 }}
*{{cite book |last=Mitchell |first=Brett |editor=Forbes, Andrew |editor2=Lovi, Michelle |title=Australian Maritime Issues 2006 |publisher=[[Sea Power Centre]]|year=2007 |series=Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs |issue=19 |issn=1327-5658 |chapter=Farewell to the Fremantle Class |isbn=0-642-29644-8 |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/enwiki/w/images/PIAMA19.pdf |accessdate=12 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613185344/http://www.navy.gov.au/enwiki/w/images/PIAMA19.pdf |archivedate=13 June 2011 }}
** The chapter is available separately as ''Semaphore'', Issue 17, 2005 in [https://web.archive.org/web/20090514185457/http://www.navy.gov.au/enwiki/w/images/Semaphore_2005_17.pdf PDF] and [http://www.navy.gov.au/Publication:Semaphore_-_Issue_17%2C_2005 HTML] formats.
** The chapter is available separately as ''Semaphore'', Issue 17, 2005 in [https://web.archive.org/web/20090514185457/http://www.navy.gov.au/enwiki/w/images/Semaphore_2005_17.pdf PDF] and [http://www.navy.gov.au/Publication:Semaphore_-_Issue_17%2C_2005 HTML] formats.
* {{cite web |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-ipswich-ii |title=HMAS Ipswich |accessdate=2010-05-31 |publisher=Royal Australian Navy}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-ipswich-ii |title=HMAS Ipswich |accessdate=2010-05-31 |publisher=Royal Australian Navy}}
*{{cite book|editor-last=Moore|editor-first=John|title=Jane's Fighting Ships 1985–86|year=1985|publisher=Jane's Yearbooks|location=London|isbn=0-7106-0814-4}}
*{{cite book|editor-last=Moore|editor-first=John|title=Jane's Fighting Ships 1985–86|year=1985|publisher=[[Janes Information Services]]|location=London|isbn=0-7106-0814-4}}


{{Fremantle class patrol boat}}
{{Fremantle class patrol boat}}

Revision as of 03:40, 22 October 2022

For other ships with the same name, see HMAS Ipswich.

History
Australia
NamesakeCity of Ipswich
BuilderNQEA, Cairns
Laid down29 October 1980
Launched25 September 1982
Commissioned13 November 1982
Decommissioned11 May 2007
HomeportHMAS Cairns
Motto"Dare to Defy"
Honours and
awards		Five inherited battle honours
FateScrapped
BadgeShip's badge
General characteristics
Class and typeFremantle-class patrol boat
Displacement220 tons
Length137.6 ft (41.9 m)
Beam25.25 ft (7.70 m)
Draught5.75 ft (1.75 m)
Propulsion2 MTU series 538 diesel engines, 3,200 shp (2,400 kW), 2 propellers
Speed30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph)
Complement22
Armament

HMAS Ipswich (FCPB 209), named for the city of Ipswich, Queensland, was a Fremantle-class patrol boat in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

Design and construction

Main article: Fremantle-class patrol boat

Starting in the late 1960s, planning began for a new class of patrol boat to replace the Attack class, with designs calling for improved seakeeping capability, and updated weapons and equipment.[1] The Fremantles had a full load displacement of 220 tonnes (220 long tons; 240 short tons), were 137.6 feet (41.9 m) long overall, had a beam of 24.25 feet (7.39 m), and a maximum draught of 5.75 feet (1.75 m).[2] Main propulsion machinery consisted of two MTU series 538 diesel engines, which supplied 3,200 shaft horsepower (2,400 kW) to the two propeller shafts.[2] Exhaust was not expelled through a funnel, like most ships, but through vents below the waterline.[3] The patrol boat could reach a maximum speed of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph), and had a maximum range of 5,000 nautical miles (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph).[2] The ship's company consisted of 22 personnel.[2] Each patrol boat was armed with a single Bofors 40mm gun as main armament, supplemented by two .50 cal Browning machineguns and an 81 mm mortar,[2] although the mortar was removed from all ships sometime after 1988.[citation needed] The main weapon was originally to be two 30 mm guns on a twin-mount, but the reconditioned Bofors were selected to keep costs down; provision was made to install an updated weapon later in the class' service life, but this did not eventuate.[3][4]

Ipswich was laid down by NQEA in Cairns, Queensland on 29 October 1980, launched on 25 September 1982, and commissioned into the RAN on 13 November 1982.[5]

Operational history

During October and November 2006, Ipswich was the primary ship used for filming the 13-episode Australian television drama series Sea Patrol.[6] Ipswich was rebadged as the fictional HMAS Hammersley (pennant number 202), and spent six weeks operating off Dunk Island with both the show's cast and her normal crew aboard.[6] Footage of Ipswich at sea was mixed with scenes shot on and around sister ship HMAS Wollongong while the latter was docked in Sydney.[6]

Fate

Ipswich was decommissioned on 11 May 2007, in a joint ceremony with HMAS Townsville.[7] The two patrol boats were the last of the class in active service.[7] The patrol boat was broken up for scrap in Darwin during 2007, at a cost of $450,000 to the Australian government.[8] The patrol boat's Bofors gun was incorporated into a naval memorial cairn shaped like Ipswich's bow in Queens Park, Ipswich.[9]

Citations

  1. ^ Mitchell, Farewell to the Fremantle class, p. 105
  2. ^ a b c d e Gillett, Australian and New Zealand Warships since 1946, p. 89
  3. ^ a b Gillett, Australian and New Zealand Warships since 1946, p. 88
  4. ^ Jones, in Stevens, The Royal Australian Navy, p. 222
  5. ^ Moore, Jane's Fighting Ships 1985–86, p. 26
  6. ^ a b c Rollings, Barry (2 November 2006). "Ipswich switches over". Navy News. Archived from the original on 22 April 2008. Retrieved 30 May 2007.
  7. ^ a b "Last of the Fremantles bow out". The Navy. 69 (3). Navy League of Australia: 28. September 2007.
  8. ^ Australian National Audit Office (5 February 2015), Management of the Disposal of Specialist Military Equipment (Report), Government of Australia, p. 62, retrieved 24 April 2015
  9. ^ Foley, Peter (12 April 2011). "Naval tribute nearly shipshape". Queensland Times. Retrieved 15 April 2011.

References

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