HMPNGS Rabaul

History
Papua New Guinea
NameRabaul
OperatorPapua New-Guinea Defence Force
Launched1987
DecommissionedAugust 2018
FateScrapped
General characteristics
Class and typePacific Forum-class patrol boat
Displacement162 tons
Length103 feet (31 m)
For the volcanic caldera within which Rabaul lies, see Rabaul caldera.
For the island, see Rabaul.

HMPNGS Rabaul (01) was the first Pacific Forum patrol vessel to be commissioned, in May 1987.[1] She is not the first vessel of the class to go out of service, because her sister ship from Fiji RFNS Kiro was wrecked in 2016.[2][3] She arrived in Port Moresby, for disposal, on October 24, 2018.[4] The vessel was named HMPNGS Tarangau.[5]

Australia gave Papua New Guinea four vessels, and gave an additional eighteen vessels to neighboring countries in the Pacific Forum.[5][6] Australia gave these vessels to her smaller neighbors after the United Nations Convention of the Laws of the Sea established that maritime nations had 200-kilometre (120 mi) exclusive economic zone.[7] Australia gave these vessels so its neighbours could police their own sovereignty.

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