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HMS Echo
History
Royal Navy EnsignUK
Ordered19 June 2000
BuilderAppledore Shipbuilders
Launched4 March 2002
Commissioned7 March 2003
HomeportHMNB Devonport, Plymouth
StatusTemplate:Ship fate box active in service
General characteristics
Displacement3,470 t (3,415 long tons)
Length90.6 m (297 ft 3 in)
Beam16.8 m (55 ft 1 in)
Propulsionlist error: <br /> list (help)
Diesel-electric
3 × diesel generators (4.8 MW)
2 × 1.7 MW (2,279 hp) azimuth thrusters
1 × 0.4 MW (536 hp) bow thruster
Speed15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Range9,300 nmi (17,200 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Endurance35 days
Complement72
Sensors and
processing systems
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Side-scan sonar
Multi-beam echo sounder
Single-beam echo sounder
Undulating oceanographic profiler
Doppler current log
Sub-bottom profiler
Bottom sampling equipment

HMS Echo (H87) is the first of two multi-role hydrographic survey ships commissioned by the Royal Navy. With her sister ship, HMS Enterprise, they form the Echo class of survey vessels. She was built by Appledore Shipbuilders in Devon in 2002.

Echo and Enterprise are the first Royal Navy ships to be fitted with azimuth thrusters. Both azimuth thrusters and the bow thruster can be controlled through the Integrated Navigation System by a joystick providing high manoeuvrability. Complete control and monitoring for power generation and propulsion, together with all auxiliary plant systems, tank gauging and damage control functions is provided through the Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS), accessible through workstations around the ship.

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