Career (Australia (RAN))
Namesake:	The Larrakia Aborigines
Builder:	Austal Ships, Henderson, Western Australia
Commissioned:	10 February 2006
Homeport:	Darwin
Motto:	"United As One"
Status:	Active as of 2008
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General characteristics
Class and type:	Armidale class patrol boat
Displacement:	270 tons
Length:	56.8 metres (186 ft)
Beam:	9.5 metres (31 ft)
Draught:	2.7 metres (8.9 ft)
Propulsion:	2 x MTU 16V M70 2,320 kW diesels driving twin screws through ZF transmissions
Speed:	25 knots (46 km/h)
Range:	3,000 nautical miles (5,600 km)& at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Boats and landing craft carried:	2 x Zodiac 7.2 metres (24 ft) RHIBs
Complement:	21
Sensors and processing systems:	Low light optical equipment, communication direction finding and radar
Armament:	1 x Rafael Typhoon 25 mm naval stabilised deck gun 2 x 12.7 mm machine guns

HMAS Larrakia (ACPB 84) is an Armidale class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

Constructed by Austal Ships in Henderson, Western Australia, Larrakia was commissioned into the RAN in Darwin, Northern Territory on 10 February 2006.^[1] Larrakia is named after the Larrakia Aboriginal peoples,^[1] and is the only Armidale not to be named after a regional city.

Larrakia is assigned to Attack Division, is based in Darwin, and performs border protection and fisheries protection patrols.

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