RFA Regent (A486) in 1967
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | RFA Regent |
Ordered | 24 January 1963 |
Builder | Harland and Wolff[1] |
Yard number | 1658[1] |
Laid down | 4 September 1964 |
Launched | 9 March 1966 |
Completed | 6 June 1967[1] |
Commissioned | 16 May 1967 |
Decommissioned | October 1992 |
Identification |
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Honours and awards | Falklands 1982 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1993 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 22,890 long tons (23,257 t) full load |
Length | 195.1 m (640 ft 1 in) |
Beam | 23.5 m (77 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 8 m (26 ft 3 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 125 RFA + 44 RNSTS + 11 Naval Air Detachment |
Aircraft carried | 1 × Wessex HU5 helicopter until April 1987 |
RFA Regent (A486) was an ammunition, explosives and stores supply ship in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). She was built by Harland and Wolff,[1] commissioned in 1967 and took part in the Falklands War.