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{{Short description|1968 Attack-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy}}
{{Use Australian English|date=March 2018}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
{{Infobox ship
|section1={{Infobox ship/image
 | image = KRI Tenggiri.jpg
 | image_caption = Ex-HMAS ''Ardent'' as KRI ''Tenggiri'' in service with the [[Indonesian Navy]] in 2005
 }}

|section2={{Infobox ship/career
 | country = Australia
 | flag = {{shipboxflag|Australia|naval}}
 | name = ''Ardent''
 | builder = [[Evans Deakin and Company]]
 | laid_down = October 1967
 | launched = 27 April 1968
 | commissioned = 26 October 1968
 | decommissioned = 6 January 1994
 }}

|section3={{Infobox ship/career
 | hide_header = Yes
 | in_service = 1994
 | out_of_service = December 1998
 | reclassified = Training ship (1994)
 | motto = "Flame And Fury"
 | nickname = 
 | honours = 
 | fate = Sold to civilian service, then to Indonesian Navy
 | notes = 
 | badge = [[File:HMAS Ardent.png|Ship's badge]]
 }}

|section4={{Infobox ship/career
 |hide_header=title
 | country = Indonesia
 | flag = {{shipboxflag|Indonesia|naval}}
 | name = ''Tenggiri''
 | acquired = 2002
 | commissioned = 2 January 2003
 | decommissioned = 
 | reclassified = 
 | motto = 
 | nickname = 
 | honours = 
 | status = Active as of 2018
 | notes = 
 | badge = 
 }}

|section5={{Infobox ship/characteristics
 | header_caption = (in Australian service)
 | class = {{Sclass|Attack|patrol boat}}
 | displacement = *100 tons standard
                  *146 tons full load
 | length = {{convert|107.6|ft|abbr=on}} [[length overall]]
 | beam = {{convert|20|ft|m|abbr=on}}
 | draught = *{{convert|6.4|ft|abbr=on}} at standard load
             *{{convert|7.3|ft|m|abbr=on}} at full load
 | propulsion = *2 × 16-cylinder Paxman YJCM diesel engines
                *{{convert|3460|shp|abbr=on}}
                *2 shafts
 | speed = {{convert|24|kn}}
 | range = {{convert|1200|nmi}} at {{convert|13|kn}}
 | complement = 3 officers, 16 sailors
 | sensors = 
 | EW = 
 | armament = *1 × [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70|Bofors 40 mm L/70 (SAK-40/L70-315)]] gun
              *2 × .50-calibre [[M2 Browning]] machine guns
              *Small arms
 | notes = 
 }}
}}
'''HMAS ''Ardent'' (P 87/A243)''' was an {{sclass|Attack|patrol boat}} of the [[Royal Australian Navy]] (RAN). She was built by [[Evans Deakin and Company]], and was commissioned into the RAN in 1968. ''Ardent'' was decommissioned in 1994, then assigned as a navigation training vessel. At the end of 1998, she was removed from service. Initially marked for preservation at the [[Darwin Military Museum]], the vessel was sold into civilian service in 2001 after the Northern Territory government declined. In 2002, the patrol boat was acquired by the [[Indonesian Navy]], and commissioned as '''KRI ''Tenggiri'' (865)''' in 2003.

==Design and construction==
{{main|Attack-class patrol boat}}
The ''Attack'' class was ordered in 1964 to operate in Australian waters as [[patrol boat]]s (based on lessons learned through using the {{sclass2|Ton|minesweeper}}s on patrols of [[Borneo]] during the [[Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation]]), and to replace a variety of old patrol, search-and-rescue, and general-purpose craft.{{sfnp|Gillett|1988|p=86}} 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.{{sfnp|Gillett|1988|p=86}} The patrol boats had a displacement of 100 tons at standard load and 146 tons at full load, were {{convert|107.6|ft}} in [[length overall]], had a beam of {{convert|20|ft|m}}, and draughts of {{convert|6.4|ft}} at standard load, and {{convert|7.3|ft|m}} at full load.{{sfnp|Gillett|1988|p=86}}{{sfnp|Blackman|1968|p=18}} Propulsion machinery consisted of two 16-cylinder Paxman YJCM diesel engines, which supplied {{convert|3460|shp}} to the two propellers.{{sfnp|Gillett|1988|p=86}}{{sfnp|Blackman|1968|p=18}} The vessels could achieve a top speed of {{convert|24|kn}}, and had a range of {{convert|1200|nmi}} at {{convert|13|kn}}.{{sfnp|Gillett|1988|p=86}}{{sfnp|Blackman|1968|p=18}} The ship's company consisted of three officers and sixteen sailors.{{sfnp|Blackman|1968|p=18}} Main armament was a bow-mounted [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|Bofors 40 mm gun]], supplemented by two .50-calibre [[M2 Browning]] machine guns and various small arms.{{sfnp|Gillett|1988|p=86}}{{sfnp|Blackman|1968|p=18}} 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.<ref name=ANMM>{{cite web |url=http://www.anmm.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1369 |title=The Patrol Boat: HMAS Advance |website=Australian National Maritime Museum |access-date=30 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006222550/http://www.anmm.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1369 |archive-date=6 October 2011}}</ref>

''Ardent'' was laid down by [[Evans Deakin and Company]] at [[Brisbane]], Queensland{{sfnp|Gillett|1988|p=87}} in October 1967, launched on 27 April 1968,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.navyhistory.org.au/category/navy-day-by-day/1960-1975/page/6/ |title=On this day: 1960–1975 |website=Naval Historical Society of Australia |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100820071252/http://www.navyhistory.org.au/category/navy-day-by-day/1960-1975/page/6/ |archive-date=20 August 2010}}</ref> and commissioned on 26 October 1968.{{sfnp|Gillett|1988|p=87}}

==Australian service==
''Ardent'' suffered a major fire in August 1969, raising questions about the design of the ''Attack'' class.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Design doubts after Australian Navy fire |journal=Shipbuilding and Shipping Record |volume=114 |issue=9 |page=5 |date=5 September 1969}}</ref> The fire damage was repaired at [[Cockatoo Island Dockyard]].<ref name="Jeremy">{{cite book |title=Cockatoo Island: Sydney's Historic Dockyard |pages=240–241 |first=John |last=Jeremy |publisher=UNSW Press |year=2005 |isbn=0868408174}}</ref> She underwent refits at Cockatoo Island in 1970, 1974 and 1976.<ref name="Jeremy"/>

In November 1977, ''Ardent'' intercepted a boat carrying 180 [[Vietnam]]ese [[asylum seeker]]s.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/how-whitlam-closed-the-door-on-refugees/2006/04/17/1145126051892.html |title=How Whitlam closed the door on refugees |first=Gerard |last=Henderson |author-link=Gerard Henderson |date=18 April 2006 |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |access-date=21 September 2019}}</ref>

On 23 July 1980, ''Ardent'' apprehended two Indonesian fishing boats poaching in Australian waters off [[Derby, Western Australia|Derby]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.navyhistory.org.au/category/navy-day-by-day/1976-1999/page/3/ |title=On this day: 1976–1999 |website=Naval Historical Society of Australia |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823024949/http://www.navyhistory.org.au/category/navy-day-by-day/1976-1999/page/3/ |archive-date=23 August 2011}}</ref>

''Ardent'' was transferred to the Hobart Port Division of the [[Royal Australian Navy Reserve]] on 18 June 1982.{{sfnp|Gillett|1988|p=87}}

===Decommissioning===
The patrol boat was decommissioned on 6 January 1994 and redesignated as a General Purpose Vessel with the pennant number A243. It was assigned as a navigation training ship for junior warfare officers based in Sydney.<ref>{{cite book|title=Defence Report|page=78|author=Australian Department of Defence|year=1993–1994}}</ref> ''Ardent'' was replaced by the [[Defence Maritime Services]] vessel {{ship||Seahorse Mercator}}.<ref name="Navy_News_98">{{cite news |url=http://www.defence.gov.au/news/navynews/editions/1998/11_16_98/story6.htm |title=Chartmaker Honoured |date=16 November 1998 |newspaper=[[Navy News (Australia)|Navy News]] |access-date=10 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040317150020/http://www.defence.gov.au/news/navynews/editions/1998/11_16_98/story6.htm |archive-date=17 March 2004}}</ref>

===Disposal===
''Ardent'' was withdrawn from service in December 1998 and offered to the [[government of the Northern Territory]], which considered placing it in the [[Darwin Military Museum]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/Navy_News-December-14-1998.pdf |date=14 December 1998 |title=Sad farewell after 30 years of service |newspaper=Navy News |page=10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/Navy_News-December-14-1998.pdf |first=Joel |last=Kennett |date=14 December 1998 |title=Ardent retires to Darwin |newspaper=Navy News |page=15}}</ref> but remained moored at {{HMAS|Coonawarra}} until the NT government declined the offer in August 2000.<ref name="Sub18">{{Citation |last=Collings |first=Jon |editor=Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit  |date=19 June 2002 |title=Review of the Accrual Budget Documentation |type=Report |url=http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=jcpaa/accrualbudget/contents.htm#contents |publisher=Government of Australia |chapter=Submission 18: Department of Defence |chapter-url=http://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/house_of_representatives_committees?url=jcpaa/accrualbudget/submissions/sub18.pdf |access-date=20 January 2014}}</ref> She was then sold to Britton Marine (Australia) Pty Ltd as MV ''Ardent'' in January 2001 for $150,000.<ref name="Sub18"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.defence.gov.au/ips/parliament/qons/40th/slc/0102_ae_feb02/responses/w11.htm |title=Additional Estimates Hearing, Question W11: Sale of Defence Equipment |website=Parliament of Australia |date=21 February 2002 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202145444/http://www.defence.gov.au/ips/parliament/qons/40th/slc/0102_ae_feb02/responses/w11.htm |archive-date=2 February 2014}}</ref>

==Indonesian service==
MV ''Ardent'' was sold to the [[Indonesian Navy]] in 2002 and commissioned as KRI ''Tenggiri'' (865) on 2 January 2003.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.balipost.co.id/balipostcetak/2003/1/3/n1.htm |title=TNI AL Tambah Dua Kapal Perang |trans-title=TNI AL acquire two warships |newspaper=[[Bali Post]] |language=id |date=3 January 2003 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040124131231/http://www.balipost.co.id/balipostcetak/2003/1/3/n1.htm |archive-date=24 January 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://tempo.co.id/hg/nasional/2003/01/02/brk,20030102-09,id.html |title=Enam Kapal Perang TNI AL akan Dilelang |trans-title=Six Navy warships will be auctioned |website=[[Tempo (Indonesian magazine)|Tempo Interaktif]] |language=id |date=2 January 2003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203232901/http://tempo.co.id/hg/nasional/2003/01/02/brk,20030102-09,id.html |archive-date=3 February 2014}}</ref> In December 2013 it was patrolling the [[Strait of Malacca]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tnial.mil.id/News/OperasiLatihan/tabid/80/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/17223/Default.aspx |title=Indonesia aan Malaysia gelar patroli terkoordinasi ke 122 di Selat Malaka |trans-title=Indonesia and Malaysia hold 122nd coordinated patrol in the Malacca Strait |date=16 December 2013 |website=[[TNI-AL]] |access-date=21 September 2019}}</ref> and in February 2018 detained three vessels illegally mining [[tin]] off the [[Bangka Belitung Islands]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.militer.or.id/8726/kri-tenggiri-865-koarmabar-tangkap-3-kapal-penambang-timah-ilegal/ |title=KRI Tenggiri-865 Koarmabar Tangkap 3 Kapal Penambang Timah Ilegal |trans-title=KRI Tenggiri-865 Koarmabar captures three illegal tin mining vessels |last=Raditya |first=Rendy |date=3 February 2018 |website=Militer.or.id |language=id |access-date=21 September 2019}}</ref>

==References==
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===Bibliography===
*{{cite book |editor-last=Blackman |editor-first=Raymond |title=Jane's Fighting Ships, 1968–69 |edition=71st |year=1968 |publisher=Jane's Publishing Company |location=London |oclc=123786869}}
*{{cite book |last=Gillett |first=Ross |title=Australian and New Zealand Warships since 1946 |year=1988 |publisher=Child & Associates |location=Brookvale, NSW |isbn=0-86777-219-0 |oclc=23470364}}

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