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HMS Bulwark

Career (UK)
Name: HMS Bulwark
Operator: Royal Navy
Ordered: 18 July 1996
Builder: BAE Systems Marine
Laid down: 27 January 2000 B...
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Career (UK)
Name: HMS Bulwark
Operator: Royal Navy
Ordered: 18 July 1996
Builder: BAE Systems Marine
Laid down: 27 January 2000 Barrow-in-Furness, England
Launched: 15 November 2001
Sponsored by: Lady Walker
Commissioned: 10 December 2004
Refit: 2010–2011
Home port: HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Motto: "Under thy wings I will trust"
Status: in active service, as of 2015
General characteristics
Class & type: Albion-class amphibious transport dock
Displacement: 19,560 tonnes (19,250 long tons; 21,560 short tons)
Length: 176 metres (577 ft)
Beam: 28.9 metres (95 ft)
Draught: 7.1 metres (23 ft)
Propulsion:
2 × Wärtsilä Vasa 16V 32E diesel generators
2 × Wärtsilä Vasa 4R 32E diesel generators
2 × electric motors
Bow thruster
Speed: 18 knots (21 mph; 33 km-h)
Range: 8,000 miles (7,000 nmi; 13,000 km)
Boats & landing
craft carried:
4 × LCU MK10
4 × LCVP MK5
Capacity: 67 vehicles
Troops: 405 Royal Marines (710 overload)
Crew: 325
Sensors and
processing systems:
2 × Type 1007-8 I-band radars
1 × Type 996 E-F band radar
1 × Type 997 E-F-band radar (from 2016)
Armament:
2 × Goalkeeper CIWS
2 × 30 mm guns
4 × general purpose machine guns
Aviation facilities: Two landing spots for helicopters up to the size of a Chinook.
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