RFA Tideforce (A139)
RFA Tideforce is a Tide-class replenishment tanker of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). Ordered from DSME in 2012, she was officially named on 24 January 2018.
![]() RFA Tideforce on the Firth of Clyde on 28 February 2019. | |
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Name: | RFA Tideforce |
Ordered: | February 2012 |
Builder: | DSME |
Laid down: | 24 December 2015 |
Launched: | 21 January 2017 |
In service: | 30 July 2019 |
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Status: | In active Service |
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Class and type: | Tide-class fast fleet tanker |
Displacement: | 37,000 t (36,000 long tons) |
Length: | 200.9 m (659 ft 1 in) |
Beam: | 28.6 m (93 ft 10 in)[2] |
Draft: | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
Propulsion: | CODELOD |
Speed: | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)[3] |
Range: | 18,200 nautical miles (33,700 km; 20,900 mi) |
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Complement: | 63 plus 46 non-crew embarked persons (Royal Marines, flight crew, trainees) |
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Aircraft carried: | 1 medium helicopter with full hangar facilities (Merlin / Wildcat), flight deck capable of landing Chinook-size helicopter |
Tideforce departed from her builders on 23 June 2018 and reached UK waters on 12 August 2018. At A&P's Falmouth dockyard she was fitted out with sensitive military equipment prior to entering service in 2019.[5]
References
- "Tide Class MARS Tanker". BMT. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- "DSME Announced as Winning Bid for Royal Navy's MARS Tanker Competition". Defencepro Daily. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- "HMS Westminster's refuelling first with new tanker RFA Tidespring". Royal Navy. 11 June 2018. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
- "Kelvin Hughes to supply equipment for 4 MARS tankers vessels for Royal Fleet Auxiliary". navyrecognition.com. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
- http://www.ap-group.co.uk/2015/01/27/ap-group-wins-major-mod-contract-to-customise-and-support-new-rfa-tanker-fleet/
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