HMAS Archer (P 86)
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Design and construction
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Archer was built by Walkers Limited at Maryborough, Queensland,[4] launched on 2 December 1967Script error: No such module "Unsubst". and commissioned on 15 May 1968.[4]
Operational history
Archer paid off on 21 October 1974. She was transferred to the Indonesian Navy and renamed KRI Siliman,[5] and was listed in Jane's Fighting Ships as still operational in 2011.[5]
According to reports by Janes, Siliman sank due to engine fire while moored off the Port of Belawan, North Sumatra on the night of 28 September 2025. All 21 crew members were rescued.[6]
Citations
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- ↑ a b c d e f Gillett, Australian and New Zealand Ships since 1946, p. 86
- ↑ a b c d e Blackman (ed.), Jane's Fighting Ships, 1968–69, p. 18
- ↑ The patrol boat, Australian National Maritime Museum
- ↑ a b Gillett, Australian and New Zealand Ships since 1946, p. 87
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