HMAS Buccaneer (P 100)
HMAS "Buccaneer" (P 100) was an "Attack"-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Design and construction. The "Attack" class was ordered in 1964 to operate in Australian waters as patrol boats (based on lessons learned through using the Ton class minesweepers on patrols of Borneo during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation, and to replace a variety of old patrol, search-and-rescue, and general-purpose craft. Initially, nine were ordered for the RAN, with another five for Papua New Guinea's Australian-run coastal security force, although another six ships were ordered to bring the  class to twenty vessels. The patrol boats had a displacement of 100 tons at standard load and 146 tons at full load, were in length overall, had a beam of , and draughts of at standard load, and at full load. Propulsion machinery consisted of two 16-cylinder Paxman YJCM diesel engines, which supplied to the two propellers. The vessels could achieve a top speed of , and had a range of at . The ship's company consisted of three officers and sixteen sailors. Main armament was a bow-mounted Bofors 40 mm gun, supplemented by two .50 calibre M2 Browning machine  guns and various small arms. The ships were designed with as many commercial components as possible: the "Attack"s were to operate in remote regions of Australia and New Guinea, and a town's hardware store would be more accessible than home base in a mechanical emergency. "Buccaneer" was built by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane, Queensland, launched on 14 September 1968, and commissioned on 11 November 1969. Fate. "Buccaneer" paid off on 27 July 1984, and was sunk by gunfire during target practice on 8 October 1988.