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     A-269 Grey Rover     

Photo byEugenio Castillo Pert, Málaga
Country: United Kingdom United Kingdom
Class, [Type]: Rover, [AO].
Builder: Swan Hunter Shipbuilders, Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.
Launch date: 30 October 1973.
Commission date: 23 August 1974.
Decommission date: 24 February 2006.

Displacement ( tons ): 4.700 light, 11.522 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 140,6 x 19,2 x 7,3
Main machinery: 2 x SEMT-Pielstick 16 PA4 185 diesels ( 15.360 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 19.
Range ( miles ): 15.000 at 15 knots.
Complement: 48 ( 17 officers ).

Guns: 2 x Oerlikon 20mm, 2 x 7,62mm.
Military lift: 6600 tons fuel.

Radar: Navigation: Racal Decca 52690 ARPA; Racal Decca 1690, I band.
Countermeasures: Decoys: 2 x Corvus, 2 x Plessey Shield; 1 x Grasseby Type 182, towed torpedo decoy.

Callsign: GYXM ( Golf Yankee X-ray Mike )
Comment: No hangar but helicopter landing platform.

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