Portal:Military history of Australia/Units/April 15

HMAS Townsville accompanying USS Robert E. Peary

The second HMAS Townsville (P 205) was a Fremantle class patrol boat laid down by the North Queensland Engineers and Agents at Cairns in Queensland on 5 March 1979, launched on 16 May 1981 and commissioned on 18 July 1981. Townsville was used to depict the fictional HMAS Defiance in the second season of the ABC television series Patrol Boat. HMAS Townsville was decommissioned at Cairns on 11 May 2007.