| Career (UK) | |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | January 1968 |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter |
| Laid down: | 28 February 1968 |
| Launched: | 17 April 1969 |
| Commissioned: | 10 March 1970 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 February 2006 |
| Fate: | being broken up by Leavesley International at Birkenhead, near Liverpool, April 2010 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | Light: 4,700 tons Full load: 11,522 tons Gross: 7,510 tons Net: 3,185 tons 6,822 metric tons 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 diesls 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: |
Sperry Marine Visionmaster radars and ECDIS. 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 |
RFA Grey Rover (A269) was a Rover class small fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
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