RFA Lyme Bay
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RFA Lyme Bay is a Bay-class auxiliary dock landing ship (LSD(A)) of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). Ordered from Swan Hunter in 2000, the ship was launched in 2005. However, cost overruns and delays saw the shipbuilder removed from the project, and the incomplete ship was towed to Govan for finishing by BAE Systems Naval Ships. Lyme Bay entered service in late 2007; the last ship of the class to join the RFA.
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RFA Lyme Bay in the Mediterranean, 2020 | |
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Name | RFA Lyme Bay |
Namesake | Lyme Bay, Dorset |
Ordered | 18 December 2000 |
Builder | Swan Hunter / BAE Systems |
Laid down | 22 November 2002 |
Launched | 3 September 2005 |
In service | 26 November 2007 |
Homeport | Falmouth[1] (forward deployed as part of Littoral Response Group (South))[2] |
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Status | in active service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Bay-class landing ship dock |
Displacement | 16,160 t (15,905 long tons) full load |
Length | 579.4 ft (176.6 m) |
Beam | 86.6 ft (26.4 m) |
Draught | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
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Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Range | 8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 1 LCU or 2 LCVP in well deck; Mexeflote powered rafts |
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Troops | 356 standard, 700 overload |
Complement | 60 |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | Not routinely carried but a temporary hangar can be fitted. |
Aviation facilities | Flight deck can operate helicopters up to Chinook size |
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