Rover-class tanker

Rover-class tanker
RFA Black Rover in Plymouth 2005.
Class overview
Builders:	Swan Hunter
Operators:	Royal Fleet Auxiliary Indonesian Navy Portuguese Navy
Built:	1968–1974
In commission:	1970–
Completed:	5
General characteristics
Displacement:	16,160 tonnes 6,692 metric tons deadweight (DWT)
Length:	461 ft (140.5 m)
Beam:	63 ft (19.2 m)
Draught:	24 ft (7.3 m)
Propulsion:	2 × SEMT-Pielstick 16 PA 4 diesls 1 × shaft Bow thruster 15,360 hp (11.5 MW)
Speed:	19 knots (35 km/h)
Range:	15,000 miles (24,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Capacity:	3,000 m³ of fuel
Complement:	16 officers 31 ratings
Sensors and processing systems:	Sperry Marine Visionmaster radars and ECDIS. 1690 I band navigation radars
Electronic warfare & decoys:	2 × Corvus and 2 × Plessey Shield decoy launchers Graseby Type 182 towed torpedo decoy
Armament:	2 × Oerlikon 20 mm guns 2 × 7.62 mm machine guns
Aircraft carried:	Helicopter deck but no hangar

The Rover class is a ship class of "Small Fleet Tanker" of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the United Kingdom. They are tasked with the support of naval warships by the replenishment at sea (RAS) with fuel oils and with limited supplies of other naval stores. For RAS tasking, they can refuel a vessel on either beam and a third trailing astern and have a large flight deck to allow vertical replenishment (VERTREP) with helicopters.

Ships

Name	Pennant	Builder	Commissioned	Fate
Green Rover	A268	Swan Hunter, Hebburn	15 August 1969	To Indonesian Navy 1992
Grey Rover	A269	Swan Hunter, Hebburn	10 April 1970	scrapped 2010
Blue Rover	A270	Swan Hunter, Hebburn	15 July 1970	To Portuguese Navy 1993 as Berrio
Gold Rover	A271	Swan Hunter, Wallsend	22 March 1974	In service (2012)
Black Rover	A273	Swan Hunter, Wallsend	23 August 1974	In service (2012)

Photos

RFA Gold Rover (A271) leaving Plymouth Sound in March 2010

NRP Bérrio, 2007 (ex RFA Blue Rover)

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Warships of the Royal Navy, Captain John E. Moore RN, Jane's Publishing, 1979, ISBN 0-531-03730-4
• Britain's Modern Royal Navy, Paul Beaver, Patrick Stephens Limited, 1996, ISBN 1-85260-442-5