HMAS Air View (923)
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HMAS Air View (923) was a Miami-class 63-foot Air-Sea Rescue Boat that was operated by the Royal Australian Navy during World War II, and later by the Royal Australian Air Force. Built by Fellows & Stewart in Wilmington, California.
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Australia | |
Name | HMAS Air View |
Operator | Royal Australian Navy |
Ordered | 4 March 1944 |
Builder | Fellows & Stewart, Wilmington, California |
Commissioned | 20 November 1944 |
Decommissioned | 30 September 1946 |
Fate | Transferred to the Royal Australian Air Force in 1949 |
Name | 02-109 |
Operator | Royal Australian Air Force |
Acquired | 1949 |
Fate | Sold to private owners, 1985 |
Status | Undergoing restoration, 2012 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Miami-class air-sea rescue boat |
Displacement | 23 long tons (23 t) |
Length | 63 ft (19 m) o/a |
Beam | 15 ft 4 in (4.67 m) |
Draught | 4 ft (1.2 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × 630 hp (470 kW) Hall-Scott Defender V12 petrol engines |
Speed | 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph) |
Endurance | 14.5 hours |
Complement | 7 or 8 |
Armament | 2 × twin .50 cal. M2 Browning machine guns |
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