HMAS Moresby (1963)
History | |
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Australia | |
Namesake | John Moresby |
Builder | State Dockyard Newcastle |
Laid down | May 1962 |
Launched | 7 September 1963 |
Commissioned | 6 March 1964 |
Decommissioned | 1998 |
Renamed | MV Patricia Anne Hotung (1999) |
Identification | IMO number: 8952352 |
Motto | "With Science and Vision" |
Honours and awards | Two inherited battle honours |
Fate | Sold September 1999 as humanitarian ship |
General characteristics | |
Type | Survey ship |
Displacement | 2,340 tonnes |
Length | 95.7 m (314 ft) |
Beam | 12.8 m (42 ft) |
Draught | 3.81 m (12.5 ft) mean |
Propulsion | Diesel Electric, three English Electric diesel engines, 2 electric motors, 2 shafts |
Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
Range | 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 3 × 34 ft (10 m) Survey Motor Boats |
Capacity | 372 tons oil fuel |
Complement | 146 |
Sensors and processing systems | TM 829 radar, Lambda position fixing system, Simrad SU2 sonar, echo sounders, magnetometer |
Armament | 2 × 40 mm Bofors guns (removed 1973) |
Aircraft carried |
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HMAS Moresby, named for the explorer Captain
Construction
Moresby was launched at the State Dockyard, Newcastle on 7 September 1963 by the wife of Rear Admiral Gatacre. She was commissioned into the RAN on 6 March 1964.[2] Moresby was the only ship of her class to be constructed.
Operational history
Throughout her career in the RAN, Moresby sailed over 1 million miles, and carried out surveys of Torres Strait, the D'Entrecasteaux Channel in Tasmania, Exmouth Gulf, Wilsons Promontory and the Gulf of Papua.[3]
Decommissioning and civilian service
In October 1999, Moresby was sold to Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist Eric Hotung via Caravelle Investments Limited of Hong Kong for A$584,985.[4] She was renamed MV Patricia Anne Hotung,[5] and underwent a A$1 million refit at Maritime Engineers in Fremantle, Western Australia, enabling the 95-metre (312 ft) ship to carry 500 passengers and 2,021 tons of cargo.[6][5]
Patricia Anne Hotung sailed in support of the
References
- ISBN 978-1-876270-72-8, p. 37
- ISBN 1-876043-78-4
- ISBN 0-207-12927-4
- ^ Collings, Jon (19 June 2002), "Submission 18: Department of Defence" (PDF), in Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (ed.), Review of the Accrual Budget Documentation (Report), Government of Australia, retrieved 20 January 2014
- ^ "Maritime Engineers Pty Ltd". Archived from the original on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ "IOM Press Briefing Notes 24 Jul 2001: West Timor. Retrieved 15 January 2007".