RFA Black Rover |
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders: | Swan Hunter |
| Operators: | Royal Fleet Auxiliary Indonesian Navy Portuguese Navy |
| Built: | 1968–1974 |
| In commission: | 1970– |
| Completed: | 5 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | Light: 4,700 tons Full load: 11,522 tons Gross: 7,510 tons Net: 3,185 tons 6,692 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 |
The Rover class is a ship class of "Small Fleet Tanker" of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the United Kingdom. They are tasked with the support of naval warships by the replenishment at sea (RAS) with fuel oils and with limited supplies of other naval stores. For RAS tasking, they can refuel a vessel on either beam and a third trailing astern and have a large flight deck to allow "vertical replenishment", with helicopters (VERTREP).
| Name | Pennant | Builder | Commissioned | Fate |
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| Green Rover | A268 | Swan Hunter, Hebburn | 15 August 1969 | To Indonesian Navy 1992 |
| Grey Rover | A269 | Swan Hunter, Hebburn | 10 April 1970 | scrapped 2010 |
| Blue Rover | A270 | Swan Hunter, Hebburn | 15 July 1970 | To Portuguese Navy 1993 as Berrio |
| Gold Rover | A271 | Swan Hunter, Wallsend | 22 March 1974 | In service (2010) |
| Black Rover | A273 | Swan Hunter, Wallsend | 23 August 1974 | In service (2010) |
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