L-3005 Sir Galahad

Country:  United Kingdom

Class, [Type]: Sir Galahad, [LST].

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

Launch date: 13 December 1986.

Commission date: 25 November 1987.

Decommission date: 2006.

Displacement ( tons ): 8.585 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 140,5 x 19,5 x 4,3

Main machinery: 2 x Mirrlees Blackstone diesels ( 13.320 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 18.

Range ( miles ): 13.000 at 15 knots.

Complement: 49 ( 15 officers ).

Guns: 2 x Oerlikon GAM-BO3 20mm, 2 x 12,7mm.

Military lift: 343 soldiers, 18 x MBT, 20 x mixed vehicles. Ammunition, fuel and stores.

Radar: Navigation: Kelvin Hughes Type 1006, I band.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 x Plessey Shield 102mm 6 tubed launchers, for chaff and infrared flares.

Helicopter: able to operate 1 x Westland Sea King HC4.

Callsign: GABN ()

Comment: Requested the 6th of september 1984 as replacement for previous Sir Galahad, sunk at Bluff Cove, Falklands, on 8th june 1982, in an argentinian air attack. It is able to transport on both sides Mexeflote pontoons ( as in the photograph ). Transferred to the Brazilian Navy, renamed Garcia D´Avila.