HMS Scott - H131



Name: HMS Scott
Operator: Royal Navy
Ordered: 20 January 1995[1]
Builder: Appledore Shipbuilders, Bideford (Subcontracted from BAeSEMA)
Launched: 13 October 1996[1]
Commissioned: 30 June 1997[1]
Refit: Major 2013-2014
Homeport: HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Identification:
Status: in active service
Badge: HMS Scott crest.jpg
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Scott-class ocean survey vessel[3]
Displacement: 13,500 t (13,300 long tons; 14,900 short tons)
Length: 131.1 m (430 ft)
Beam: 21.5 m (71 ft)
Draught: 8.3 m (27 ft)
Propulsion:
  • 2 × Krupp MaK 9M32 9-cylinder diesel engines
  • Single shaft with controllable-pitch propeller
  • Retractable bow thruster
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement: 78
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Kelvin Hughes ARPA 1626, I-band navigation radar
  • Sonar array sounding system (SASS)
  • Proton magnetometer
  • Sonar 2090 ocean environment sensor
  • SASS IV multibeam depth-sounder

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