HMAS Bass (GPV 902) was an Explorer class general-purpose vessel of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), serving in a range of capacities from 1960 until 1994.

[2] Propulsion machinery consisted of GM diesels, which supplied 348 shaft horsepower (260 kW) to the two propeller screws, and allowed the vessel to reach 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph).

[2] By July 1967, the ship had been assigned to Hobart for hydrographic survey duties, and for service as a training vessel to the Royal Australian Navy Reserve Port Division based there.

[2] In October 1985, Bass was reassigned to the Darwin Port Division of the Royal Australian Navy Reserve.

[5] Civilian owners have included Sydney Harbour and foreshore identities, John Giddens, Jeff Devine and Danny Black.