page_title: Fantome-class survey motor boat
section_title: Vessels
hierarchical_section_title: Fantome-class survey motor boat / Vessels
caption_attribution_description: Department of Defense caption: Three survey motorboats line up beside the HMAS Leeuwin just before going out for the beach land survey during Exercise Tandem Thrust 2001. Exercise Tandem Thrust 2001 is a combined United States and Australian military training exercise. This biannual exercise is being held in the vicinity of Shoalwater Bay training area, Queensland, Australia. More than 27,000 Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines are participating, with Canadian units taking part as opposing forces. The purpose of Exercise Tandem Thrust is to train for crisis action planning and execution of contingency response operations. Additional information: The vessels depicted are Fantome class survey motor launches, rafted up to the side of their mothership, the survey ship HMAS Leeuwin. Another survey ship, a Paluma class vessel, is located in the background. At the time of this photo, RAN survey vessels were painted white, as opposed to the naval grey of the rest of the fleet (the survey vessels would be repainted grey later in their careers).
context_page_description: The Fantome class is a class of eight small survey motor boats operated by the Royal Australian Navy and DMS Maritime. The four-man boats are designed to operate from the Leeuwin-class survey vessels, with three assigned to each ship, while the seventh and eighth were attached to the RAN Hydrographic School at HMAS Penguin. They are fitted with navigational and survey equipment and are unarmed.
context_section_description: The nine boats are:
  SMB 1005 Investigator     [Taken out of service 2001]
  SMB 1006 Fantome
  SMB 1007 Meda
  SMB 1008 Duyfken
  SMB 1009 Tom Thumb
  SMB 1010 John Gowland
  SMB 1011 Geographe
  SMB 1012 Casuarina
  SMB 1021 Condor
caption: Fantome-class boats (left to right) Meda, Investigator, and Geographe rafted up to HMAS Leeuwin in May 2001
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