Now named hmas choules

Port of registry: London
IMO: 9240756
Call sign: GCIA
Ex-names: - - - -
Type/class: "Bay" class - Landing ship (Dock type)
Built by: Swan Hunter Shpbldng. & Eng. Group Ltd. - Wallsend in 2006
DWT: 10,172 tons

I was laying alongside the QEII Pier at the o2 and she was being towed head up,so i assume they either didnt bother spinning her or due to the tide. It was Ebb tide so most likely the tide to make things easier.

I think one of her crew went sick because around 11.30pm they requested an ambulance at Greenwich Pier.

City Cruises towed the Eleanor Rose down with the Princess Rose to save fuel before the ship came up,they have been very busy recently with tender work.

I saw her arrive last night around 9pm,3 adsteam tugs with her.

Ordered: 19 December 2000
Laid down: 01 October 2001
Launched: 18 July 2003
Commissioned: 17 December 2006
Decommissioned:
Fate: In service.
Struck:
General characteristics
Displacement: 16,190 tons full load
Length: 176.6 m
Beam: 26.4 m
Draught: 5.1 m
Propulsion: 2 x Wartsila 8L26 engines,
2 x Wartsila 12V26 engines.

Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
Range: 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h).
Complement: 59
Military Lift: 356 troops; 1200 Linear metres of vehicles (e.g. 32 Challenger 2 MBT's or 150 light trucks); 12 × 40 TEU or 24 × 24 TEU containers, 2 Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel (LCVP) Mk.5 and 1 Landing Craft Utility (LCU) Mk 10; two Mexeflote powered rafts.
Armament: None, but fitted to receive military weapons and self defence systems, including Phalanx CIWS.
Aircraft: Single spot flight deck with limited facilities to transport and operate Merlin, Chinook and V22 Osprey.