HMAS Labuan
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| Pennant | L 128 |
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| Class | Landing Craft Heavy |
| Based | Cairns |
| Laid down | October 1971 |
| Launched | 29 December 1971 |
| Builder | Walker Ltd, Maryborough, Queensland |
| Commissioned | 9 March 1973 |
| Displacement | 323 tonnes (loaded 511 tonnes) |
| Length | 44.75 metres4,475 cm 0.0448 km 0.0278 mi 146.818 ft 1,761.811 in |
| Beam | 10 metres1,000 cm 0.01 km 0.00621 mi 32.808 ft 393.701 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 (2 officers, 11 sailors) |
HMAS Labuan (II) was named after the landing on 10 June 1945, when Westralia (I) and Manoora (I) placed 24 Brigade units ashore. The name was also selected previously as the name of an RAN LST (tank landing ship) scrapped in 1956.
