Sea Patrol (2007– )

Following a crew of an Australian Naval vessel HMAS Hammersley.

Creators:

Di McElroy, Hal McElroy

Stars:

John Batchelor, Matthew Holmes, Lisa McCune

1 win & 3 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
John Batchelor	...	Chief Petty Officer Andy 'Charge' Thorpe (67 episodes, 2007-2011)
Matthew Holmes	...	Chief Petty Officer Chris 'Swain' Blake (67 episodes, 2007-2011)
Lisa McCune	...	Lieutenant Kate McGregor (67 episodes, 2007-2011)
Kristian Schmid	...	Able Seaman Robert J. 'RO' Dixon (67 episodes, 2007-2011)
Ian Stenlake	...	Lieutenant Commander Mike Flynn (67 episodes, 2007-2011)
Kirsty Lee Allan	...	Chef Rebecca 'Bomber' Brown (42 episodes, 2008-2010)
Nikolai Nikolaeff	...	Leo '2 Dads' Kosov-Meyer (41 episodes, 2009-2011)
Saskia Burmeister	...	Lieutenant Nikki Caetano (39 episodes, 2007-2009)
Jay Ryan	...	Able Seaman Billy 'Spider' Webb (39 episodes, 2007-2009)
Jeremy Lindsay Taylor	...	Petty Officer Pete 'Buffer' Tomaszewski (39 episodes, 2007-2009)
David Lyons	...	Leading Seaman Josh 'ET' Holiday (38 episodes, 2007-2009)
Conrad Coleby	...	Dylan 'Dutchy' Mulholland (28 episodes, 2010-2011)
Danielle Horvat	...	Jessica 'Gap Girl' Bird (28 episodes, 2010-2011)
Tammy Macintosh	...	CMDR Maxine 'Knocker' White (28 episodes, 2010-2011)

Storyline

Following a crew of an Australian Naval vessel HMAS Hammersley.

---

Plot Keywords:

patrol boat | navy | australian coast | australian | zodiac boat | 

---

Genres:

Drama

---

Details

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Also Known As:

A parti őrség

Filming Locations:

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Company Credits

Production Co:

Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), McElroy All Media

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Two Royal Australian Navy Fremantle class patrol boats were used to portray the fictional HMAS Hammersley. HMAS Wollongong was used for filming in Sydney and HMAS Ipswich was used for filming off Queensland.

---

Connections

Featured in Getaway: Golden Getaway: Holidays in the Sun (2007)

User Reviews

Thoroughly enjoyable

Nothing but great things to say about this show. After a bit of a slow start in Series One, Series Two is off to a cracking start - improved pace, improved writing and the actors have clearly settled into their roles.

In particular, I'd single out Jeremy Lindsay-Taylor (Buffer) and Sacha Burmiester (Nav) for great performance characterisation. The romantic tension between Flynn (Ian Stenlake) and Kate (Lisa McCune) is much more believable this time around.

There's obviously some suspension of belief required: in the second series at least one crew member gets into an extreme life-threatening situation each episode, and almost everyone on the crew is a heck of a lot prettier than any soldier I've come across, but you take these caveats at the outset and sit down to enjoy the drama.

One thing that the show could work on is a better calibre of guest actors - while there have been some standouts (well-known actors like Ditch Davey and Alan Dale) there have been a few guests this series that have really let the writing and the regular actors down.

If you haven't checked out series 2 of Sea Patrol I would highly recommend it.