HMS Ocean (L12)

Career (UK)
Name: HMS Ocean
Operator: Royal Navy
Ordered: 11 May 1993
Builder: Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd, Kværner (Govan)
Laid down: 30 May 1994
Launched: 11 October 1995
Sponsored by: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Commissioned: 30 September 1998
Refit: Major 2012–2014
Homeport: HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Motto: Ex undis surgit victoria
Nickname(s): "The Mighty O"
Honours and
awards:
Ushant 1781
Mesopotamia 1914
Dardannels 1915
Suez Canal 1915
Korea 1952–53
Al Faw 2003
Status: In active service as of 2015.
General characteristics
Class & type: Landing Platform Helicopter
Displacement: 21,500 t (21,200 long tons; 23,700 short tons)[1]
Length: 203.4 m (667 ft)
Beam: 35 m (115 ft)
Draught: 6.5 m (21 ft)
Propulsion:
Two Crossley Pielstick V12 diesel engines
One Kamewa bow thruster (Currently removed)
Speed:
15 knots (28 km-h) cruise
18 knots (33 km-h) max
Range: 8,000 miles
Boats & landing
craft carried:
1 Seaboat (Pacific 22 Mk2)
4 × LCVP Mk5B
Capacity: 40 vehicles
Troops: 830 Royal Marines
Crew: 285 + 180 FAA-RAF[2]
Sensors and
processing systems:
Type 997 Artisan 3D Radar
Type 1008 Navigational Radar
2 × Type 1007 Aircraft Control Radar
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
UAT Electronic Support Measures
DLH decoy Launchers
Surface Ship Torpedo Defence (SSTD)
Armament:
4 × 30mm DS30M Mk2 guns
3 × Phalanx CIWS
4 × Miniguns
8 × General purpose machine guns
Aircraft carried:
Up-to 18 helicopters:

Westland Sea King
Westland Lynx
AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat
Merlin
Boeing Chinook
Westland Apache
Aviation facilities:
Large flight deck
Hangar deck
Helicopter lifts
Vehicle deck
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