RFA Lyme Bay (L3007)

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RFA Lyme Bay berthed at Portland Port August 2007
Career RFA Ensign
Ordered: 19 December 2000
Shipyard: Swan Hunter originally. Transferred to Scotstoun, now at Govan
Laid down: 01 October 2001
Launched: 26 August 2005
Commissioned: Expected November 2007
Decommissioned:
Fate:
Struck:
General characteristics
Displacement: 16,190 tons full load
Length: 176.6 m
Beam: 26.4 m
Draught: 5.1 m
Propulsion: 2 x Wartsila 8L26 engines,

2 x Wartsila 12V26 engines.
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
Range: 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h).
Complement: 59
Military Lift: 356 troops; 1200 Linear metres of vehicles (e.g. 32 Challenger 2 MBT's or 150 light trucks); 12 × 40 TEU or 24 × 24 TEU containers, 2 Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel (LCVP) Mk.5 and 1 Landing Craft Utility (LCU) Mk 10; two Mexeflote powered rafts.
Armament: None, but fitted to receive military weapons and self defence systems, including Phalanx CIWS.
Aircraft: Twin spot flight deck with limited facilities to transport and operate Merlin, Chinook and V22 Osprey.
Motto:

RFA Lyme Bay (L3007) is a Bay class auxiliary landing ship dock (LSD(A)) of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

Lyme Bay was built by Swan Hunter on the River Tyne. On July 13, 2006 it was announced that, due to delays and cost over-runs, fitting out of Lyme Bay would be transferred from Swan Hunter and completed by BAE Systems at Scotstoun [1]. Lyme Bay arrived on the clyde on July 22, 2006[2]

  1. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/5175754.stm BBC News - Yard blow as ship work switched
  2. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5205152.stm BBC News - Unfinished ship arrives on Clyde
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