A-271 Gold Rover

Country:  United Kingdom

Class, [Type]: Rover, [AO].

Builder: Swan Hunter Shipbuilders, Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.

Launch date: 07 March 1973.

Commission date: 22 March 1974.

Decommission date: 06 March 2017.

Displacement ( tons ): 4.700 light, 11.522 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 140,6 x 19,2 x 7,3

Main machinery: 2 x SEMT-Pielstick 16 PA4 185 diesels ( 15.360 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 19.

Range ( miles ): 15.000 at 15 knots.

Complement: 55 ( 18 officers ).

Guns: 2 x Oerlikon 20mm, 2 x 7,62mm.

Military lift: 6.600 tons fuel.

Radar: Navigation: Racal Decca 52690 ARPA; Racal Decca 1690, I band.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 2 x Corvus, 2 x Plessey Shield; 1 x Grasseby Type 182, towed torpedo decoy.

Callsign: GRET ()

Comment: No hangar but helicopter landing platform.

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