RFA Gold Rover
1974 Rover-class small fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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RFA Gold Rover was a small fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and one of five[1] Rover-class ships that were designed by the Admiralty, all of which were built at the Swan Hunter shipyard.
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RFA Gold Rover | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | RFA Gold Rover |
Ordered | November 1971 |
Builder | Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom |
Launched | 7 March 1973 |
Commissioned | 22 March 1974 |
Decommissioned | 6 March 2017 |
Homeport | London |
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Fate | Scrapped 3 September 2019 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Rover class |
Displacement | 11522 tons full load |
Length | 461 ft 04 in (140.61 m) |
Beam | 63 ft 02 in (19.25 m) |
Draught | 23 ft 11 in (7.29 m) |
Installed power | 15,300 shp |
Propulsion | 2 x 16 cyl Pielstick diesels |
Speed | 19 knots |
Range | 15,000 miles (24,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Endurance | 8,000 nautical miles |
Capacity | 3,000 m3 of fuel |
Complement |
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Crew | 60+ |
Sensors and processing systems | Sperry Marine Visionmaster radars and ECDIS. 1690 I band navigation radars |
Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | Helicopter deck but no hangar |
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Gold Rover and her sister Black Rover were the last two in service with the RFA[2] on duty around the world. The class was phased out as part of a worldwide effort to replace single-hulled tankers with more environmentally safe double-hulled vessels.[3] Gold Rover herself was decommissioned in a sunset ceremony at Portsmouth Naval Base on 6 March 2017.[4]