Photo taken on Sydney Harbour during the RAN's 75 anniversary. October 1986.

Namesake: Explorer Captain John Moresby
Builder: State Dockyard Newcastle
Laid down: May 1962
Launched: 7 September 1963
Commissioned: 6 March 1964
Decommissioned: 1998
Renamed: MV Patricia Anne Hotung (1999)
Fate: Sold September 1999 as humanitarian ship

General characteristics

Type: Survey ship
Displacement: 2,340 tonnes
Length: 95.7 m (314 ft)
Beam: 12.8 m (42 ft)
Draught: 3.81 m (12.5 ft) mean
Propulsion: Diesel Electric, three English Electric diesel engines, 2 electric motors, 2 shafts
Speed: 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Range: 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km; 12,000 mi)
Capacity: 372 tons oil fuel
Complement: 146