R-07 Ark Royal

Country:  United Kingdom

Class, [Type]: Invincible, [CVV].

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

Launch date: 04 June 1981.

Commission date: 01 November 1985.

Decommission date: 11 March 2011.

Displacement ( tons ): 20.600 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 209,1 x 36 x 8

Main machinery: 4 x Rolls Royce Olympus TM3B gast turbines ( 97.200 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 28.

Range ( miles ): 7.000 at 19 knots.

Complement: 685 ( 60 officers ) + 366 ( 80 officers ) of the embarked air unit, and acommodation for 600 marines.

Guns: 3 x 20mm Mk15 Phalanx 30mm, 2 x Oerlikon/BMARC GAM-B01 20mm.

Radar: Air: Marconi/Signaal Type 1022, 265km range, D band; Surface: Plessey Type 996, E/F bands; Navigation: 2 x Kelvin Hughes Type 1006, I band; Fire Control: 3 x General Dynamics Mk 90 for the CIWS.

Sonar: Plessey Type 2016, hull mounted, active search and attack modes.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 8 x Sea Gnat dispensers; Prairie/Masker hull and blades noise supressor; ESM: MEL UAA 2 ( interceptor ); ECM: Thorn EMI Tipo 675 ( jammer ).

Helicopter: up to 9 x Westland Sea King HAS 6 or EH 101 Merlin, 3 x Westland Sea King AEW 2.

Aviation: 8 x British Aerospace Sea Harrier FA2 and 8 x Harrier GR 7.

Callsign: GCDG ()

Homeport: Portsmouth.

Similar units:

 R05 Invincible
 R06 Illustrious