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HMS Fearless off North Carolina, 9 May 1996
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History | |
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Name | Fearless |
Builder | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
Laid down | 25 July 1962 |
Launched | 19 December 1963 |
Sponsored by | Lady Hull, wife of Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull |
Commissioned | 25 November 1965 |
Decommissioned | 18 March 2002 |
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Fate | Scrapped Ghent harbour (BE) 2008 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Fearless-class landing platform dock |
Displacement | 12,120 tons (full load) |
Length | 520 ft (160 m) |
Beam | 80 ft (24 m) |
Draught | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × English Electric 2 shaft geared steam turbines. 22,000 shp (16,000 kW) total |
Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h) |
Complement | 580 |
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Aircraft carried | Landing platform for up to 5 Sea King helicopters. |
HMS Fearless (L10) was a Royal Navy amphibious assault ship that served from 1965 until 2002. One of two Fearless-class landing platform docks, she was based in HMNB Portsmouth and saw service around the world over her 37-year life. She was the last steam-powered surface ship in the Royal Navy.[1]