HMAS ''Bombard'' (P 99) was an of the
Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Design and construction
The ''Attack'' class was ordered in 1964 to operate in Australian waters as
patrol boats (based on lessons learned through using the s on patrols of
Borneo during the
Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation, and to replace a variety of old patrol, search-and-rescue, and general-purpose craft.
[ Initially, nine were ordered for the RAN, with another five for Papua New Guinea's Australian-run coastal security force, although another six ships were ordered to bring the class to twenty vessels.][ The patrol boats had a displacement of 100 tons at standard load and 146 tons at full load, were in ]length overall
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, had a beam of , and draughts of at standard load, and at full load.[Gillett, ''Australian and New Zealand Ships since 1946'', p. 86][Blackman (ed.), ''Jane's Fighting Ships, 1968–69'', p. 18] Propulsion machinery consisted of two 16-cylinder Paxman YJCM diesel engines, which supplied to the two propellers.[ The vessels could achieve a top speed of , and had a range of at .][ The ship's company consisted of three officers and sixteen sailors.][ Main armament was a bow-mounted ]Bofors 40 mm Bofors 40 mm gun is a name or designation given to two models of 40 mm calibre anti-aircraft guns designed and developed by the Swedish company Bofors:
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gun, supplemented by two .50-calibre M2 Browning machine guns and various small arms.[ The ships were designed with as many commercial components as possible: the ''Attack''s were to operate in remote regions of Australia and New Guinea, and a town's hardware store would be more accessible than home base in a mechanical emergency.][''The patrol boat'', Australian National Maritime Museum]
''Bombard'' was built by Walkers Limited at Maryborough, Queensland
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Geography
Maryborough is located on the Mary River in Queensland, Australia, approximate ...
,[Gillett, ''Australian and New Zealand Ships since 1946'', p. 87] launched on 6 July 1968, and commissioned on 5 November 1968.[
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Operational history
During 1978 and 1979, ''Bombard'' was one of two ''Attack''-class vessels used to portray the fictional HMAS ''Ambush'' for ABC
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drama series '' Patrol Boat''.[ For this, ''Bombard''s ]pennant number
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was changed to 83, to match the other patrol boat used, .[
''Bombard'' paid off on 12 September 1983, was transferred to the Indonesian Navy and renamed KRI ''Siribua''.][
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Attack-class patrol boats
1968 ships