HMAS Brunei
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| Commanding Officer | Lieutenant Carl Jordan |
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| Pennant | L 127 |
| Type | Amphibious Warfare |
| Classification | Landing Craft, Heavy (LCH) |
| Class | Balikpapan Class |
| Based | Cairns |
| Laid down | July 1971 |
| Launched | 15 October 1971 |
| Builder | Walker Ltd, Maryborough, Queensland |
| Commissioned | 5 January 1973 |
| Displacement | 316 tonnes316,000 kg 316,000,000 g 696,660.552 lb 11,146,571.992 oz |
| Length | 44.5 metres4,450 cm 0.0445 km 0.0277 mi 145.997 ft 1,751.969 in |
| Beam | 10.1 metres1,010 cm 0.0101 km 0.00628 mi 33.136 ft 397.638 in |
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| Speed | 9 knots4.63 m/s 16.668 km/h 0.00463 km/s 911.418 ft/min 15.19 ft/s |
| Company | 13 |
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HMAS Brunei was named after the location of a well known Australian WW2 Amphibious landing in the Pacific. Brunei is the first Australian warship to bear the name.
With the other 5 LCHs ( Balikpapan, Betano, Labuan, Tarakan and Wewak) Brunei has played a critical role in peacekeeping and resupply in Bougainville and East Timor.
