Country: United Kingdom
Class, [Type]: Fort Victoria, [AOR].
Builder: Swan Hunter Shipbuilders, Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.
Launch date: 01 March 1991.
Commission date: 16 July 1993.

Displacement ( tons ): 32.300 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 203,5 x 30,4 x 9,8
Main machinery: 2 x Crossley SEMT-Pielstick 16 PC2.6 V 400 diesels ( 23.904 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 20.
Complement: 95 ( 24 officers ) from RFA + 28 ( 1 officer ) from RN + 154 ( 28 officers ) from the embarked air unit.

Guns: 4 x Lawrence Scott 30mm/75 Mk1, 2 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm.
Military lift: 12505 cubic meters for liquids, 6234 cubic meters for solids.

Radar: Navigation: Kelvin Hughes Type 1007, I band; Air Trafic Control: Kelvin Hughes NUCLEUS, I band.
Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 x Plessey Shield launchers. Towed torpedo decoy; ESM: Marconi UAG Mentor, interceptor.
Helicopter: can operate five Westland Sea King or Merlin.

Callsign: GCOG (     )
Comment: Designed as an AOR, requirement for this ships is to provide fuel and stores to a fleet at sea. The initial plan comprised the construction of six units of the same type, but finally only two units were finished. At first it was planned to include an air search radar, such as the Plessey 996 ( 3D, E/F bands ) but finally was not included.

Similar units:
 A387 Fort Victoria