HMAS Bunbury
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Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have borne the name Bunbury, for a port city in Western Australia.
The first HMAS Bunbury (J241/M241) was a Bathurst class corvette built by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane in Queensland, launched on 16 May 1942 by Mrs. F. A. Cooper, wife of the Treasurer of Queensland, and commissioned on 3 January 1943.
HMAS Bunbury paid off to reserve on 26 August 1946 and was sold for scrap to the Kinoshita Company of Japan on 6 January 1961.
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| Career [Australia] |  |
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| Laid down: | 29 July 1977 |
| Launched: | 21 June 1978 |
| Commissioned: | 15 December 1984 |
| Status: | Decommisioned |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 220 tonnes |
| Length: | 42 metres |
| Beam: | 7.15 metres |
| Propulsion: | Two MTU 538 series 16-cylinder main propulsion engines |
| Speed: | 30 knots |
| Complement: | 24 |
| Armament: | 40/60mm Bofors general purpose gun, Two 12.7mm machine guns |
| Motto: | "Nothing without toil" |
| Badge: | |
The second HMAS Bunbury (FCPB 217) is a Fremantle class patrol boat laid down by the North Queensland Engineers and Agents at Cairns in Queensland on 13 June 1983, launched on 3 November 1984, commissioned on 15 December 1984 and decommissioned in 2005.
| Name | Period in Command |
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| Charlie Ferguson | Unknown |
| Mike Purdy | Unknown |
| Paul Papalia | Unknown |
| Michele Miller | Unknown |
| Andy Schroder | Unknown |
| Andrew Quinn | Unknown |
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