Qld: Navy warship to be displayed in Townsville

AAP General News (Australia)
04-22-2007
Qld: Navy warship to be displayed in Townsville

A soon-to-be decommissioned Navy warship will be returned to the north Queensland city
it was named after.

The Federal Government says Defence Minister BRENDAN NELSON will invite the Townsville
Maritime Historical Society to enter into a deed of gift .. which would preserve and exhibit
the HMAS Townsville as a display in a dry-dock facility next to the city's Maritime Museum.

HMAS Townsville .. a Fremantle Class Patrol Boat .. was commissioned on July 18 .. 1981.

During its 26 years of service its main role was conducting border and fisheries protection
patrols.

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KEYWORD: TOWNSVILLE (BRISBANE)

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