HMAS Bandolier (P 95)
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Template:Infobox ship imageTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship characteristicsHMAS Bandolier (P 95) was an Template:Sclass of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Design and construction
Template:Main The Attack class was ordered in 1964 to operate in Australian waters as patrol boats (based on lessons learned through using the Template:Sclass2s on patrols of Borneo during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation, and to replace a variety of old patrol, search-and-rescue, and general-purpose craft.<ref name=Gillett86/> Initially, nine ships were ordered for the RAN, with another five for Papua New Guinea's Australian-run coastal security force, although another six ships were ordered to bring the class to twenty vessels.<ref name=Gillett86/> The patrol boats had a displacement of 100 tons at standard load and 146 tons at full load, were Template:Convert in length overall, had a beam of Template:Convert, and draughts of Template:Convert at standard load and Template:Convert at full load.<ref name=Gillett86>Gillett, Australian and New Zealand Ships since 1946, p. 86</ref><ref name=Janes68>Blackman (ed.), Jane's Fighting Ships, 1968–69, p. 18</ref> Propulsion machinery consisted of two 16-cylinder Paxman YJCM diesel engines, which supplied Template:Convert to the two propellers.<ref name=Gillett86/><ref name=Janes68/> The vessels could achieve a top speed of Template:Convert, and had a range of Template:Convert at Template:Convert.<ref name=Gillett86/><ref name=Janes68/> The ship's company consisted of three officers and sixteen sailors.<ref name=Janes68/>The main armament was a bow-mounted Bofors 40 mm gun, supplemented by two .50 calibre M2 Browning machine guns and various small arms.<ref name=Gillett86/><ref name=Janes68/> The ships were designed with as many commercial components as possible: the attacks were to operate in remote regions of Australia and New Guinea, and a town's hardware store would be more accessible than home base in a mechanical emergency.<ref name=ANMM>The patrol boat, Australian National Maritime Museum</ref>
Bandolier was built by Walkers Limited at Maryborough, Queensland,<ref name=Gillett87>Gillett, Australian and New Zealand Ships since 1946, p. 87</ref> launched on 2 October 1968, and commissioned on 14 December 1968.<ref name=Gillett87/>
Operational history
Bandolier paid off on 16 November 1973.<ref name=Gillett87/> She was transferred to the Indonesian Navy and renamed KRI Sibarau (847).<ref name=Gillett87/><ref name=Saunders20112012>Template:Cite book</ref> The patrol boat listed in Jane's Fighting Ships was still operational in 2011.<ref name=Saunders20112012/> In December 2017, the vessel sank while on patrol in the North Sumatra Sea at 03.45.38 North and 098.57.55 East. The cause was not known, but there were no casualties among the crew.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>