Commissioning of Cape Otway today

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Commissioning of Cape Otway today

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Apparently the first of the Navy's purpose-built Cape class, Cape Otway, will be commissioned today over in WA.

She will join Cape Fourcroy and Cape Inscription (both of which are owned by National Australia Bank and leased to the RAN) in service and is the first of six boats intended to speed the decommissioning of the Armidale class (some of whom are in not particularly great shape) and support the transition to the Arafura class.

Not sure if she will be designated ADV (Australian Defence Vessel) like Fourcroy and Inscription (which are painted blue with a red stripe) or commissioned as HMAS.

Otway and the remaining 5 Navy-ordered vessels are being painted Haze Grey and bear hull numbers in the 31X series.

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Rumour has it that Peter Dutton will be attending Mike. Watch this space......
Small point, but I am pretty sure Fourcroy and Inscription do not have the go faster red stripe, unlike the eight ABF vessels.
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Indeed you're correct Nigel, no GT racing strip for Cape Fourcroy or Cape Inscription.

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It was announced that the Navy's six new Cape Class patrol boats will be named named Australian Defence Vessels (ADV) Cape Otway, Cape Peron, Cape Naturaliste, Cape Capricorn, Cape Woolamai and Cape Pillar.

Good to see our Navy hierarchy has absolutely no understanding of tradition. :roll:

Three of our capital's / largest cities now no longer have RAN ships named for them (Melbourne, Darwin and Newcastle) and we are phasing out patrol boats named after Australian cities and replacing them with the names of features on a map, in some cases junking links that go back across three classes of ships (Wollongong for example)

I'm sure the RAN recruits a lot of people from Arafura and Cape Pillar. :no:

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ADV Cape Otway on Contrator's Sea-trials prior to handover.
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