.jpg) BRP Ivatan arriving at Captain Veloso Pier
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| History | |
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 Australia | |
| Namesake | Landings at Brunei Bay (Battle of North Borneo) |
| Builder | Walkers Limited (Maryborough, Queensland) |
| Laid down | 9 August 1971 |
| Launched | 8 October 1971 |
| Commissioned | 5 January 1973 |
| Decommissioned | 20 November 2014
Call sign: VKDK    |
| Homeport | HMAS Cairns |
| Motto | "Attempt to Attain" |
| Honours and awards |
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| Fate | Transferred to the Philippine Navy, 23 July 2015 |
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| History | |
 Philippines | |
| Name | BRP Ivatan |
| Namesake | Ivatan people, a Filipino ethnic group predominant in the Batanes Islands |
| Acquired | 23 July 2015 |
| Commissioned | 23 July 2015 |
| Status | Active as of 2015 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Balikpapan-class landing craft heavy |
| Displacement | 316 tons |
| Length | 44.5 m (146 ft) |
| Beam | 10.1 m (33 ft) |
| Propulsion | Two GE diesels |
| Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
| Capacity | 180 tons of vehicle cargo or 400 soldiers |
| Complement | 13 |
| Armament | 2 × 0.50 inch machine guns |
BRP Ivatan (LC-298) is a Balikpapan-class heavy landing craft operated by the Philippine Navy. One of eight vessels built by Walkers Limited for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), the ship was commissioned into Australian service in 1973 as HMAS Brunei (L 127). During her RAN career, Brunei (named after the amphibious landings at Brunei Bay during the World War II Battle of North Borneo) visited Lord Howe Island, was deployed post-Cyclone Tracy as part of Operation Navy Help Darwin, performed coastal surveys of northern Australia and Papua New Guinea, and served as part of the INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce.
Brunei was decommissioned from Australian service in 2014. The ship was refurbished and donated to the Philippine Navy, commissioning as BRP Ivatan (named after the Ivatan ethnic group) in 2015.