Английская Википедия:HMAS Air View (923)
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Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristicsHMAS 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.
Design
The Miami class rescue boats were wooden-hulled, and powered by two Шаблон:Convert Hall-Scott Defender petrol engines giving a top speed of 31.5 knots. They were armed with two twin .50 calibre M2 Browning machine guns mounted either side of the bridge. The crew comprised one officer in command, a coxswain, two engineers, two seamen and one or two radio operators.[1]
Service history
Air View was one of a class of twenty boats ordered on 4 March 1944.[2] They were all Model 314 boats, designed by the Miami Shipbuilding Corporation, of Miami, Florida, but built at a number of shipyards in California.[3] Air View was built by Fellows & Stewart in Wilmington, California, as hull C-26683[4] and arrived at Sydney aboard the MV Laponia in June 1944, and was commissioned on 20 November 1944.[2]
Air View was stationed in and around Sydney until September 1945, when she sailed for Darwin, and subsequently operated in the Torres Strait into 1946.[5]
Air View was placed into reserve on 30 September 1946, and in 1949 she was one of thirteen RAN rescue boats transferred to the Royal Australian Air Force,[2] and renamed 02-109. She was stationed at Neutral Bay in Sydney, and in Townsville, Queensland.[6][7]
The boat was sold by the RAAF to private owners in 1985, being the last of her class still in service. In 2011 the boat was acquired by a Melbourne based scuba-diving training company and is undergoing restoration.[8][9]
Air View is listed on the Australian Register of Historic Vessels.[10]
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