Bronzewing-class harbour tug

Class overview
Operators:	Royal Australian Navy
Completed:	4
General characteristics [1]
Type:	Harbour tug
Displacement:	47.5 long tons (48 t)
Length:	15.2 m (49 ft 10 in) o/a
Beam:	4.6 m (15 ft 1 in)
Speed:	9.5 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph)
Complement:	3

The Bronzewing-class harbour tug was a class of four tugs constructed for the Royal Australian Navy.^[2] HTS 503 was given to Papua New Guinea in 1974. They were constructed by Stanard Bros, Sydney, except for HTS Mollymawk (504), that was constructed by Perris Engineering, Brisbane.

• Bronzewing (HTS 501)
• Currawong (HTS 502)
• HTS 503
• Mollymawk (HTS 504)

Bronzewing and Currawong are currently on loan from the RAN to Sydney Heritage Fleet, where they are often used in support of James Craig (barque) and other heritage ships in the Fleet.

Notes

1. "My Model Drawings". members.dodo.com.au. 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
2. Wertheim 2007, p. 33.

References

• Wertheim, Eric (2007). The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-955-X.