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Austal Australia delivers the 10th GCPB May 10, 2021, by Sanja Pekic
Austal Australia has delivered RSIPV Taro, the tenth guardian-class patrol boat (GCPB) to the Australian Department of Defence.
Courtesy of Austal
RSIPV
Taro, named after Taro Island (capital of the Choiseul Province, located in the far northwest of the Solomon Islands archipelago), is the second of two guardian-class patrol boats that are to be delivered to the Solomon Islands under the Pacific Patrol Boat Replacement Project.
This follows the delivery of the RSIPV
Gizo in November 2019.
The Pacific Patrol Boat Replacement (PPB-R) Project was granted to Austal in May 2016, with an additional contract option awarded in April 2018. The program includes 21 vessels, valued at more than A$335 million.