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HMAS Rushcutter (M 80)

1986 Bay-class minehunter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ5630548 ↗
Source-derived summary

HMAS Rushcutter (M 80) was one of two Bay class minehunters built for the Royal Australian Navy by Carrington Slipways at its Ramsay Fibreglass facility in Tomago. It was launched on 8 May 1986 and commissioned on 1 November 1986. It was decommissioned on 14 August 2001.

It and sister ship HMAS Shoalwater were sold in 2002 for service in the Persian Gulf. By 2013, it had been sold and returned to Sydney, being laid up in Rozelle Bay. By 2017 it was laid up in Botany Bay.

Editorial summary

“HMAS Rushcutter (M 80)” enters the record as 1986 Bay-class minehunter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what HMAS, Rushcutter and Bay-class can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 2001, 2002, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around HMAS, Rushcutter and Bay-class.
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“HMAS Rushcutter (M 80)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, HMAS, Rushcutter and Bay-class provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5630548. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1986, 2001, 2002 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “HMAS Rushcutter (M 80)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.