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HMS Bulwark (L15)

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File:Albionclass.jpg
Career RN Ensign
Ordered: 18 July 1996
Laid down: 27 January 2000
Launched: 15 November 2001
Commissioned: 10 December 2004
Decommissioned:
Fate: Template:Active in service
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 18,500 t
Length: 176 metres
Beam: 25.6 m waterline, 28.9 m maximum
Draught:
Propulsion: 2 x 6.25 MW and 2 x 1.56 MW diesel generators operating at 6.6 kV driving two AC motors through twin shafts and a bowthruster unit.
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
Range: 7000 nautical miles (13,000 km)
Complement: 325
Armament: 2 Goalkeeper CIWS
4 x 7.62 mm machine guns
Aircraft:
Motto:

HMS Bulwark is an Albion-class LPD, the UK's newest class of amphibious assault warship. For numerous reasons, delays caused the delivery date to be put back, with the ship entering service in December 2004. Coupled with Albion and HMS Ocean, as well as other amphibious ships, she should provide a much improved and potent amphibious capability for the Royal Navy.

Two-spot 64 metre flight deck is able to take two medium support helicopters and stow a third. The deck is also capable of supporting a Chinook helicopter. Though the Albion design does not have a hangar, the ship does have sufficient equipment to support helicopter operations.

Affiliations

Albion-class landing platform docks
List of amphibious warfare ships of the Royal Navy
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