RFA Grey Rover
1970 Rover-class small fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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RFA Grey Rover (A269) was a Rover-class small fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). She was decommissioned in 2006.
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The RFA Grey Rover around the coast of South Georgia Falkland Islands, October 2005. | |
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Name | Grey Rover |
Ordered | January 1968 |
Builder | Swan Hunter |
Yard number | 7 |
Laid down | 28 February 1968 |
Launched | 17 April 1969 |
Commissioned | 10 March 1970 |
Decommissioned | 24 February 2006 |
Identification | IMO number: 6923163 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Rover-class tanker |
Tonnage | 6,822 DWT |
Displacement | 16,160 tonnes[1] |
Length | 461 ft (141 m) |
Beam | 63 ft (19 m) |
Draught | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
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Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
Range | 15,000 miles (24,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Capacity | 3,000 m3 (19,000 bbl) of fuel |
Complement |
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Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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Aviation facilities | Helicopter deck |
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