H.M.S. Fearless
L 10
1982
(Albatros ALK-336)
- Class: Fearless - 2 Landing Platform Docks of 1962
- Displacement: 11,060 tons normal; 12,120 tons deep load
- Dimensions: 520 x 80 x 21 ft.
- Machinery: 2 x English Electric geared steam turbines, 22,000 shp, twin shaft = 21 knots
- Armament: 4 Seacat GWS22 SAM (4x4); 2-40mm/60 Mk 9 Bofors (2x1)
- Landing Craft: 4 x LCU Mk 10; 4 x LCVP Mk 5
- Helicopters: landing platform for 5 Wessex or 4 Sea King
- Complement: 580 + 400-700 troops
- Builder: Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Keel Laid: 26 Jul 1962
- Launched: 19 Dec 1963
- Commissioned: 26 Nov 1965
- Decommissioned: 18 Mar 2002
- Notes: First purpose-built LPD for the Royal Navy. First operational tasking was as command platform for British operations prior to withdrawal from Aden. In 1968 served as venue for talks between British PM Harold Wilson and Ian Smith of Rhodesia which had declared independence in an attempt to preserve white-minority rule. Participated in the 1982 Falklands War with Argentina, hosting the amphibious force command staff and 3 Commando Brigade staff along with elements of the landing force at San Carlos. Refitted 1985-88 replacing original armament with Phalanx CIWS and 20mm BMARC guns. Served as a training vessel from 1991. Last steam-powered warship in Royal Navy at time of decommissioning. Scrapped at Ghent 2008.
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