HMAS Betano (L 133)

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Royal Australian Navy
HMAS Betano in June 2011
period of service
Builder: Walkers Limited
Keel laying: September 1972
Launch: 5th December 1972
Commissioning: February 8, 1974
Decommissioning: December 12, 2012
General data
Ship type: Heavy landing craft
Displacement: 316 t
Length: 44.5 m
Width: 10.1 m
Draft: 1.9 m
Capacity: 180 tons of cargo or 400 soldiers
Drive: Two GM Detroit 6-71 diesel engines
Speed: 9 kn
Range: 1300 nm at 15 kn
900 nm at 32 kn
Crew: 13 men
Armament:

The HMAS Betano (L 133) was a heavy landing craft ( Landing Craft, Heavy , LCH for short ) of the Royal Australian Navy until 2013 . She is one of the original eight Balikpapan-class boats that replaced the Australian Army's LSM-1 class medium landing craft and ALC-50 landing craft .

history

HMAS Betano in the Banda Sea as a participating unit in the humanitarian operation “Pacific Partnership” in June 2011

The boat is named after the East Timorese town of Betano , where the Australian destroyer HMAS Voyager (D31) was lost in an evacuation operation in 1942 during World War II .

From January 19 to February 19, 2000 the Betano was used to land INTERFET soldiers during the crisis in East Timor . The ship was later awarded the "East Timor 2000" award for this mission. On March 20, 2000, HMAS Betano visited the place of the same name.

The Betano's home port was the HMAS Coonawarra fleet base in Darwin , and the ship's motto was “Bravely in difficulties”.

On December 12, 2012, the Betano was decommissioned together with her type ship HMAS Balikpapan . A year later, the last boats of the Balikpapan class were taken out of service. The Philippine Navy has expressed its interest in taking over the Tarakan and Brunei , the Betano and two more of its sister ships.

technical description

Boat coat of arms

The boat is 44.5 m long, 10.1 m wide and has a draft of 1.9 m. The displacement is 316 tons, with a full load 503 tons. The two diesel engines deliver a total of 675 hp, so that the two propellers can accelerate the ship up to 9 knots. Thirteen men make up the permanent crew. The boat has a Decca RM-916 navigation radar and two 7.62mm machine guns.

The maximum payload charge is 180 tons, which corresponds to about three Leopard 1 battle tanks , 13 M113 transport tanks , 23 trucks or four LARC-Vs . As a troop transport, the HMAS Betano can take 400 soldiers to bring them to the shore from a ship lying off the coast. The range is 1,300 nautical miles with a payload of 180 tons, with a load of 150 tons it increases to 2,280 miles and unladen to 3,000 miles. However, due to its design, the HMAS Betano can only be used to a limited extent in poor weather conditions.

Ships with the same name

The patrol boat Betano of the East Timorese Navy is also named after the town of Betano .

literature

The HMAS Betano in the port of Dili (2011)
  • Ross Gillett: Australian and New Zealand Warships since 1946 . Child & Associates, Brookvale, NSW 1988, ISBN 0-86777-219-0 .
  • Eric Wertheim (Ed.): The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems . 15th edition. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD 2007, ISBN 978-1-59114-955-2 , pp. 26 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : HMAS Betano  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gillett: Australian and New Zealand Warships since 1946. pp. 79, 125.
  2. ^ David Stevens: Strength Through Diversity: The combined naval role in Operation Stabilize. ( Memento of September 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Sea Power Center - Australia Vol. 20, Canberra 2007, ISBN 978-0-642-29676-4 .
  3. ^ Royal Australian Navy Ship / Unit Approved Battle Honors - March 1, 2010 ( Memento of March 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). March 3rd, 2010 on navy.gov.au ( PDF , approx. 310 kB)
  4. ↑ HMA Ships Balikpapan and Betano decommissioned . On December 13, 2012 on navy.gov.au
  5. ↑ Landing Craft, Heavy (LCH) . On navy.gov.au
  6. ↑ Carmela Fonbuena: Australia's gift to PH Navy: 2 supply ships . January 29, 2015 on rappler.com
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g Wertheim (Ed.): The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World. P. 26.
  8. ^ A b Gillett: Australian and New Zealand Warships since 1946. P. 79.