Fates
The Attack class was replaced in RAN service by the larger and more capable Fremantle class patrol boats. In 1975, Aitape, Ladava, Lae, Mandang, and Samarai were transferred to the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. Acute, Archer, Assail, Attack, Bandolier, Barricade, and Bombard were transferred to the Indonesian Navy between 1974 and 1985, where they are still in service under new names.
Arrow was destroyed in Darwin on 25 December 1974 during Cyclone Tracy.
Advance was donated to the Australian National Maritime Museum in the late 1980s for preservation as a museum ship. Ardent was to be preserved as a memorial in Darwin, but as of 2007, her status is unknown. Aware was sold to a private owner during the 1990s, who modified her for use as a diving and salvage mothership, then was resold in to new owners in 2006. Aitape was sunk as a dive wreck off Port Moresby in 1995. Bayonet was scuttled in Bass Strait in 1999 and has been successfully dived. Adroit paid off on 28 March 1992 and was sunk as a target by A-4 Skyhawk aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force west of Rottnest Island on 8 August 1994. The remainder of the class were broken up for scrap.
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