![]() 50 calibre M2 Browning machine guns and various small arms. Main armament was a bow-mounted Bofors 40 mm gun, supplemented by two. The ship's company consisted of three officers and sixteen sailors. ![]() The vessels could achieve a top speed of 24 knots (44 km/h 28 mph), and had a range of 1,200 nautical miles (2,200 km 1,400 mi) at 13 knots (24 km/h 15 mph). Propulsion machinery consisted of two 16-cylinder Paxman YJCM diesel engines, which supplied 3,460 shaft horsepower (2,580 kW) to the two propellers. The patrol boats had a displacement of 100 tons at standard load and 146 tons at full load, were 107.6 feet (32.8 m) in length overall, had a beam of 20 feet (6.1 m), and draughts of 6.4 feet (2.0 m) at standard load, and 7.3 feet (2.2 m) at full load. 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 Attack class was ordered in 1964 to operate in Australian waters as patrol boats (based on lessons learned through using the Ton class minesweepers on patrols of Borneo during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation, and to replace a variety of old patrol, search-and-rescue, and general-purpose craft. ![]()
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