HMAS Townsville (FCPB 205)

HMAS "Townsville" (FCPB 205), named for the city of Townsville, Queensland, was a "Fremantle" class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

"Townsville" was laid down by the North Queensland Engineers and Agents at Cairns in Queensland on 5 March 1979.cite web |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/HMAS_Townsville |title=HMAS Townsville |publisher=Royal Australian Navy |accessdate=2008-09-11] She was launched on 16 May 1981, and commissioned into the RAN on 18 July 1981.

"Townsville" was used to depict the fictional HMAS "Defiance" in the second season of the ABC television series "Patrol Boat".

In 2007, "Townsville" was marked for disposal. On 23 April, the Australian Government announced "Townsville" had been given to the Townsville Maritime Museum as a museum ship, along with funding to build a dry dock for display. [cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1903859.htm |title=Fed Govt hands over HMAS Townsville to museum |date=2007-04-23 |accessdate=2007-05-02 |publisher=ABC] The patrol boat was was decommissioned at Cairns, Queensland on 11 May 2007, in a joint ceremony with HMAS "Ipswich".cite news |title=Last of the Fremantles bow out |work=The Navy (Vol. 69, No. 3) |publisher=Navy League of Australia |page=28 |date=September 2007 |accessdate=2007-08-27] The two patrol boats were the last of the class in active service.

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