BROLGA auxiliary minesweeper (1978/1988)
|
Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|
Brolga (ex-Lumen) |
1102 |
Australian SB Industries, Fremantle |
12/1978 // 2.2.1988 |
stricken late 2003 |
|
Displacement standard, t |
|
|
Displacement full, t |
268 |
|
Length, m |
26.4 pp 28.4 oa |
|
Breadth, m |
8.62 |
|
Draught, m |
3.10 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
2 Mirrlees-Blackstone ESL 8 Mk 2 diesels |
|
Power, h. p. |
1080 |
|
Max speed, kts |
11 |
|
Fuel, t |
diesel oil |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
|
Armament |
Mini-Dyad magnetic minesweeping gear |
|
Electronic equipment |
2x nav. radars, Klein 590 sonar |
|
Complement |
8 |
Project history: Former steel-hulled government lighthouse maintenance vessel at Brisbane, laid up in 1987 and transferred to RAN in 1988 for use in mine countermeasures trials.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: No significant events.
Brolga 1997
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