HMTSS Te Mataili II (802)

HMTSS "Te Mataili II" (802) is the second completed, and the first to be given to the small Pacific Ocean nation Tuvalu. She was commissioned on 5 April 2019, replacing , a Pacific Forum patrol vessel, that had reached the end of her designed lifetime.
Background.
Following the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea extension of maritime nations' exclusive economic zones to , Australia agreed to provide twelve of its neighbours with twenty-two Pacific Forum-class patrol vessels, so they could exercise sovereignty over their own territory using their own resources. The first vessel was delivered in 1987, and in 2015 Australia announced plans to replace the original patrol boats with larger and more capable vessels.
Design.
Australian ship builder Austal won the $335 million Australian dollar contract for the project, and built the vessels at its Henderson shipyard, near Perth. Guardian-class vessels were designed to use commercial off-the-shelf components, not cutting edge, military grade equipment, to make them easier to maintain in small isolated shipyards.
The vessels are long, can travel at . Their maximum speed is . Their design allows the recipient nations to mount a pair of heavy machine guns, on either flank, and possibly an autocannon of up to 30 mm, on the foredeck.
Operational career.
In July 2019, Inspector Seleganui Fusi, commanding officer of the "Te Mataili II", hosted a delegation from Timor, letting them prepare for the arrival of their patrol vessels.