Inside Portsmouth harbour. 2-05-08

RFA GREY ROVER A269 and HMS INVINCIBLE R05

Career (UK)
RFA GREY ROVER
Ordered: January 1968 Laid down: 28 February 1968 Launched: 17 April 1969 Commissioned: 10 March 1970 Decommissioned: 24 February 2006 Fate: awaiting disposal General characteristics Displacement: Light: 4,700 tons Full load: 11,522 tons Gross: 7,510 tons Net: 3,185 tons 6,822 metric tons of deadweight (DWT) Length: 461 ft (140.5 m) Beam: 63 ft (19.2 m) Draught: 24 ft (7.3 m) Propulsion: 2 × SEMT-Pielstick 16 PA 4 diesels 1 × shaft Bow thruster 15,360 hp (11.5 MW) Speed: 19 knots (35 km/h) Range: 15,000 miles (24,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) Capacity: 3,000 m³ of fuel Complement: 16 officers 31 enlisted Sensors and
processing systems: Racal Decca 52690 ARPA and 1690 I band navigation radars Electronic warfare
and decoys: 2 × Corvus and 2 × Plessey Shield decoy launchers
Graseby Type 182 towed torpedo decoy Armament: 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm guns
2 × 7.62 mm machine guns Aircraft carried: Helicopter deck but no hangar