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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.

Albion Class Statistics

• Displacement: 18,500 tonnes
• Docked Down: 21,500 tonnes (approx.)
• Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h), range of 7000 nautical miles (13,000 km)
• Length:: 176 metres
• Complement: 325
• Armament:
  • 2 x Goalkeeper Close In Weapon System (CIWS)
  • Seagnat Decoy System
  • UAT Electronic Warfare System
  • 2 x 20mm close range guns,
  • 4 x Machine Gun positions.
• Propulsion: 2 x 6.25 MW & 2 x 1.56 MW diesel generators driving two AC motors through twin shafts and a bowthrust unit, all operating at 6.6 kV. RN's first integrated Full Electric propulsion ships.
• Amphibious and Troop Transport Capabilities:
  • Embarked Military Personnel: 305 troops with an additional overload capacity of a further 405 soldiers a total of 710 troops.
  • Vehicle Deck Capacity: Six tanks or thirty armoured all-terrain tracked carriers. Floodable well dock, with the capacity to take either four utility landing craft (each capable of carrying one Challenger 2 tank) or shelter a hovercraft landing craft. There are also four smaller landing craft davits, each capable of carrying 35 troops.
  • Helicopter Capacity: Two-spot 64 metre flight deck able to take medium support helicopters and stow a third. The deck is also capable of carrying a Chinook. The Albion Class design does not have a hangar but has the necessary equipment that is required to support aircraft operations.

Affiliations

• County Durham
• Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers
• Royal Irish Regiment
• The Bulwark Association

See HMS Bulwark for other ships of the same name.

• Royal Navy ships