R.F.A. Largs Bay
L 3006
2006
(Albatros ALK-309)
- Class: Bay - 2 landing ship dock of 1999
- Displacement: 16,190 tons full load
- Dimensions: 579 x 87 x 17 ft.
- Machinery: 2 Wartsila 8L26 + 2 Wartsila 12V26 engines = 18 knots
- Guns: none
- Aircraft: 1 spot with limited support for Merlin, Chinook, or V22 Osprey
- Combat Load: 356 troops; 1200 metres of vehicles; 12x40 TEU containers; 2 LCVP Mk 5 and 1 LCU Mk 10 landing craft; 2 Mexeflote powered rafts
- Complement: 59
- Builder: Swan Hunter, Wallsend
- Keel Laid: 1 Oct 2001
- Launched:11 19 Jul 2003
- Commissioned: 17 Dec 2006
- Notes: Assigned to patrol the Falkland Islands in 2008 and delivered relief supplies to Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.
Sold to Royal Australian Navy in Apr 2011 and commissioned in Dec 2011 as HMAS Choules
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