The last of Darwin's Fremantle-class Navy patrol boats has pulled in to land for the final time. HMAS Dubbo has spent 23 years in Australia's northern waters, but it is being replaced by the new ...

Compared to the current Fremantle Class patrol boats, the Armidales are more than 14 metres longer, with longer range and endurance - 3,000 nautical miles more than the Fremantle Class.

The first Armidale class patrol boat has been commissioned at HMAS Coonawarra in Darwin. Lieutenant Commander Andrew Maher has taken command of the HMAS Armidale, the first of a new larger patrol ...

Two new patrol boats will help step up surveillance of Australia's northern waters by the end of the year. Defence Minister Robert Hill said the two Armidale class patrol boats have been ...

Attack class patrol boat HMAS Ambush was used in the first season, with filming taking place during 1978 and 1979 around Sydney Harbour, Pittwater, Ku-ring-gai Chase, and the Hawkesbury River.

IT WAS like a trip down memory lane for more than 120 ex-patrol boat sailors as they hopped aboard HMAS Gladstone over the weekend.