Galicia class landing platform dock

Galicia deliving humanitarian supplies to Iraq.

Galicia unloading humanitarian supplies in Iraq.

The Galicia class are two 13,900t logistic support ships built in Ferrol, are a class of Landing Platform Dock or LPD amphibious warfare ships with a large helicopter deck and a dock for large landing craft. The result of a joint initiative with the Netherlands and Spain and similar to the Royal Netherlands Navy Rotterdam (L800) and Johan de Witt (L801). The SPS Galicia (L51) was commissioned in 1998 and the SPS Castilla (L52) in 2000. The British Royal Navy operate 4 similar, larger vessels of the Bay class.

The Galicia and the Castilla are based at the Rota naval base in Spain.

[edit] SPECIFICATIONS

Type: Landing dock

Length: 166.20 m

Beam: 25.00 m

Draft: 5.80 m

Displacement: 12.750 tonnes full load

Propulsion: Diesel-electric system

4 x Stork Wartsila 12SW28 diesel generators at 14.6 MW

4 x Holec electric motor (two in tandem per shaft) at 12 MW 2 shafts bow thruster

Range: 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 12 kt Maximum Speed: 19 knots (35 km/h)

DA08 air / surface search IRSCAN SATCOM, Link 11, JMCIS

4 Sippican Hycor SRBOC MK36 launcher 1 AN/SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy Indra SLQ-380 Aldebarán

1 or 2 Meroka 2B CIWS guns 2 Oerlikon Contraves 20 mm machine guns

Hangar for 4 SH-3 sea king or 6 AgustaWestland Lynx or NH-90 helicopter

Endurance: 6 weeks

Complement: 128 + 611 marines. The ships can transport 600 fully equipped soldiers or 170 APCs or 33 MBTs. Boats: 6 LCU's or 4 LCVP's

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