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HMAS ''Gladstone'' (FCPB 216), named for the city of Gladstone, Queensland, is a ''Fremantle''-class patrol boat, formerly of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built by North Queensland Engineers and Agents during the early 1980s, ''Gladstone'' was commissioned into RAN service in 1984. The patrol boat spent most of her career operating out of the naval base on fisheries and border protection operations. The ship's company were granted Freedom of the City of their ship's namesake city on three occasions. ''Gladstone'' was decommissioned in 2007, and was donated to the Gladstone Maritime History Society for preservation and display as a museum ship at the Gladstone Maritime Museum. Work was postponed due to the Financial crisis of 2007–2010, with preservation work and development of a wet dock to display the ship ongoing as of 2015. ==Design and construction== (詳細は''Attack'' class, with designs calling for improved seakeeping capability, and updated weapons and equipment.〔Mitchell, ''Farewell to the Fremantle class'', p. 105〕 The ''Fremantle''s had a full load displacement of , were long overall, had a beam of , and a maximum draught of .〔Gillett, ''Australian and New Zealand Warships since 1946'', p. 89〕 Main propulsion machinery consisted of two MTU series 538 diesel engines, which supplied to the two propeller shafts.〔 Exhaust was not expelled through a funnel, like most ships, but through vents below the waterline.〔 The patrol boat could reach a maximum speed of , and had a maximum range of at .〔 The ship's company consisted of 22 personnel.〔 Each patrol boat was armed with a single 40 mm Bofors gun as main armament, supplemented by two .50 cal Browning machineguns and an 81-mm mortar,〔 although the mortar was removed from all ships sometime after 1988. The main weapon was originally to be two 30-mm guns on a twin-mount, but the reconditioned Bofors were selected to keep costs down; provision was made to install an updated weapon later in the class' service life, but this did not eventuate.〔Gillett, ''Australian and New Zealand Warships since 1946'', p. 88〕〔Jones, in Stevens, ''The Royal Australian Navy'', p. 222〕 ''Gladstone'' was laid down by North Queensland Engineers and Agents at Cairns, Queensland on 7 March 1983, launched on 28 July 1984, and commissioned into the RAN on 8 September 1984.〔Moore, ''Jane's Fighting Ships 1985–86'', p. 26〕〔 During her career, the patrol boat acquired the nickname "Sadrock".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HMAS Gladstone (II) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMAS Gladstone (FCPB 216)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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