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United Kingdom | |
Name: | RFA "Tidespring" |
Namesake: | RFA Tidespring |
Ordered: | February 2012 |
Builder: | DSME |
Laid down: | December 2014 |
Launched: | April 2015 |
In service: | Expected Mid 2017 |
Identification: | Pennant number: A136 |
Status: | On delivery voyage from Korea to UK |
General characteristics | |
Type: | 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) |
Draft: | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
Propulsion: | CODELOD |
Speed: | 26.8 knots (49.6 km/h; 30.8 mph) |
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) |
RFA Tidespring is a Tide Class Replenishment Tanker of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). Ordered from DSME in 2012, the ship was accepted by the Ministry of Defence in 2017, approximately 18 months behind schedule and as of February 2017 she is enroute to the UK via Japan and Hawaii before undergoing final fitting out at A&P Falmouth prior to joining the fleet.
Tidespring is the first new vessel to join the RFA since RFA Lyme Bay in 2007.