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HUON minehunters (1999-2003)
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Diamantina 2008
Ships
Name |
No |
Yard No | Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Huon |
82 |
Intermarine, Sazana, Italy | 9.1994 | 25.7.1997 | 15.5.1999 |
in service (2019) |
|
| Hawkesbury | 83 | AD Industries, Newcastle | 12.9.1995 | 24.4.1998 | 12.2.2000 | in service (2019) |
|
| Norman | 84 | AD Industries, Newcastle | 16.9.1996 | 3.5.1999 | 26.8.2000 | in service (2019) |
|
| Gascoyne | 85 | AD Industries, Newcastle | 13.9.1997 | 11.3.2000 | 2.6.2001 | in service (2019) |
|
| Diamantina | 86 | AD Industries, Newcastle | 4.8.1998 | 2.12.2000 | 4.5.2002 | in service (2019) |
|
| Yarra | 87 | AD Industries, Newcastle | 9.6.1999 | 19.1.2002 | 1.3.2003 | in service (2019) |
Technical data
| Displacement standard, t | 600 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | 720 |
| Length, m | 52.5 |
| Breadth, m | 9.87 |
| Draught, m | 3.00 hull 4.90 propellers |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | 1 GMT BL230 8M diesel |
| Power, h. p. | 2000 |
| Max speed, kts | 14 |
| Fuel, t | diesel oil |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 2400(10) |
| Armament | 1 x 1 - 30/75 DS-30B, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2x Double Eagle Mk 2 USV, Double Oropesa mechanical, Mini-Dyad magnetic, AAG (Australian Acoustic Generator) acoustic minesweeping gear, decompression chamber |
| Electronic equipment | type 1007 radar, Radamec 1500 e/o director, type 2093 sonar, PRISM III ECM suite, 2x Super Barricade decoy RL, Mullauna CCS |
| Complement | 38 |
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Diamantina 2008
Project history
Design based on Italian Intermarine Gaeta class. The bare hull (with superstructure shell and masting) of Huon was handed over in Italy 16.7.1995 and shipped via heavy lift vessel, arriving in Australia 1.9.1995 for fitting out; hulls of the second and later units were erected in Australia. Single-skin, monocoque foam-core GRP hull without ribs, frames, or stiffeners. Machinery on cradles suspended from bulkheads and overheads and nonintegral fuel tanks to reduce acoustic transmissions. Two rudders are fitted. The shrouded azimuthal thrusters are mounted two aft and one centerline forward just abaft the variable-depth sonar housing.
Modernizations
None.
Naval service
No significant events.
