H-131 Scott

Country:  United Kingdom

Class, [Type]: Scott, [AGS].

Builder: Appledore Shipbuilders, Bideford, U.K.

Launch date: 13 October 1996.

Commission date: 19 September 1997.

Displacement ( tons ): 13.500 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 131,13 x 21,5 x 8,3

Main machinery: 2 x MaK 9M32 diesels ( 10.800 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 17,6.

Complement: 63 ( 12 officers ).

Military lift: Can accept standard cargo containers.

Radar: Navigation: 1 x Decca 1626C ARPA.

Sonar: SASS Mk4: comprises 1 x SQN-17 Bottom Topographic Survey System (BOTOSS) and 2 x BQN-33 narrowbeam sonars; Type 2090 echo sounder.

Callsign: GCUP ()

Comment: Has an ice-strengthened hull. Her large size was dictated by the need for 8m+ draft and a flat hull bottom for the mapping sonar transducer array. To be operated 300 days a year.

Homeport: Devonport.