Name: RFA Mounts Bay
Namesake: Mount's Bay
Ordered: 19 November 2001
Builder: BAE Systems, Govan, Glasgow
Laid down: 25 August 2002
Launched: 9 April 2004
In service: 13 July 2006
Identification:

IMO number: 9240770
MMSI number: 232697000
Callsign: GCIC
Pennant L3008

Status: Ship in active service
General characteristics
Class and type: Bay-class landing ship dock
Displacement: 16,160 t (15,905 long tons) full load
Length: 579.4 ft (176.6 m)
Beam: 86.6 ft (26.4 m)
Draught: 19 ft (5.8 m)
Propulsion:

2 × Wärtsilä 8L26 generators, 6,000 hp (4.5 MW)
2 × Wärtsilä 12V26 generators, 9,000 hp (6.7 MW)
2 × propulsion pods
1 × bow thruster

Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Range: 8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Boats & landing
craft carried: 1 LCU or 2 LCVP in well deck; Mexeflote powered rafts
Capacity:

1,150 linear metres of vehicles (up to 24 Challenger 2 tanks or 150 light trucks)
Cargo capacity of 200 tons ammunition or 24 TEU containers

Troops: 356 standard, 700 overload
Complement: 60
Armament:

Fitted to receive:
2 × 30 mm DS30B cannon
2 × 7.62mm Mk.44 Miniguns
6 × 7.62mm L7 GPMGs
Phalanx CIWS

Aviation facilities: Flight deck can operate helicopters up to Chinook size