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United Kingdom | |
Name | Intrepid |
Ordered | 1 May 1962[1] |
Builder | John Brown & Company |
Laid down | 19 December 1962[1] |
Launched | 25 June 1964[1] |
Commissioned | 11 March 1967[1] |
Decommissioned | 31 August 1999 |
Identification |
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Motto |
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Fate | Towed to Liverpool for scrapping September 2008 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Fearless-class landing platform dock |
Displacement |
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Length | |
Beam | 80 ft (24.4 m) |
Draught | 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 21 kn (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
Range | 5,000 nmi (9,260 km; 5,750 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)[2] |
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Capacity |
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Complement | 550 including small Royal Marines detachment (approx 88) and 2 Army Troops (Until 1973)[2] |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | Up to 5 Westland Wessex helicopters. |
HMS Intrepid (L11) was one of two Fearless-class amphibious warfare ships of the Royal Navy. A landing platform dock (LPD), she served from 1967 until 1999. Based in HM Naval Base, Devonport, Plymouth, Devon and HM Naval Base Portsmouth, she saw service around the world over her 32-year life.
At one point slated for decommissioning under terms of the 1981 Defence White Paper, she was rapidly returned to service to sail as part of the British operation to retake the Falkland Islands after the Argentine invasion in 1982. She landed troops in amphibious assaults on the Islands and the Argentine surrender was signed on her deck at the conclusion of the Falklands War.