 Two s have been chartered to supplement naval patrol boat availability during the refit cycle, and plans to replace the "Armidale"s with an enlarged class of offshore combatant vessel have been accelerated to bring them into service by the early 2020s.After extensive damage from an onboard fire, was decommissioned at the end of 2014.A fictional "Armidale"-class boat, HMAS "Hammersley", appears in the Australian military drama series "Sea Patrol" from the second season onwards, with filming occurring aboard multiple ships of the class.