NAVYPEDIA

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Intrepid 1981 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Fearless	L10	1651	Harland & Wolff, Belfast	25.7.1962	19.12.1963	25.11.1965	BU 2008
Intrepid	L11	723	John Brown, Clydebank	19.12.1962	25.6.1964	11.3.1967	BU 9.2008

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	11060
Displacement full, t	12120
Length, m	152.4 wl 158.5 oa
Breadth, m	24.4
Draught, m	6.30
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets English Electric geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	22000
Max speed, kts	21
Fuel, t	oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	5000(20)
Armament	4 x 4 Sea Cat GWS20 SAM (16 Sea Cat), 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 9, helicopter deck for 5 Wessex (later 4 Sea King)
Military load	4 LCM(9), 4 LCVP, 380 - 400 marines (700 overload), 15 tanks, 27 vehicles
Electronic equipment	type 978, type 993 radars, CAAIS CCS
Complement	580

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Project history

Updated version of the wartime dock landing ship ordered in 1962, simply smaller version of contemporary USN Raleigh class. The principal advantage over the existing LSTs was the seaworthiness, range and capability.

Modernizations

late 1970s, both: - type 993 radar; + type 994 radar, UA-A1 ECM suite, 2x Corvus decoy RL

late 1980s, Intrepid: - 2 x 4 Sea Cat GWS20 SAM, 2 x 1 - 40/60; + 2 x 2 - 30/75 GCM-A03, 2 x 1 - 20/90 GAM-B01

late 1980s, both: - type 978 radar; + type 1006 radar

1990, Fearless: - 4 x 4 Sea Cat GWS20 SAM, 2 x 1 - 40/60, UA-A1 ECM suite, 2x Corvus decoy RL, CAAIS CCS; + 2 x 2 - 30/75 GCM-A03, 2 x 6 - 20/76 Phalanx Mk 15, 2 x 1 - 20/90 GAM-B01, 2x Mk 90 radars, Mentor-A ECM suite, 8x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL, DLF(2) floating decoy launcher, Nautis-M CCS

Naval service

No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.