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Icebreaker support craft complete trials

The support craft for Australia’s new icebreaker, RSV Nuyina, are being completed well ahead of the new ship’s delivery to Hobart. A science tender, two personnel transfer tenders, a stern tender and two barges form part of the overall ‘ship system’.

Final sea trials for the science tender were undertaken in Norway in November and December, while the locally-built landing barges were

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