RFA Blue Rover (A270)
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Ordered: | January 1968 |
| Laid down: | 30 December 1968 |
| Launched: | 11 November 1969 |
| Commissioned: | 15 July 1970 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 February 1993 |
| Fate: | Purchased by the Portuguese Navy and renamed NRP BERRIO on 31 March 1993 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 11522 tons full load |
| Length: | 461 ft 04 in (140.6 m) |
| Beam: | 63 ft 02 in (19.3 m) |
| Draught: | 24 ft 00 in (7.3 m) |
| Propulsion: | (orig) 2 x 16 cyl Ruston diesels (post 1974) 2 x 16 cyl Peilstick diesels |
| Speed: | 19 knots |
| Range: | 15,000 miles (24,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 3,000 m³ of fuel |
| Complement: | 16 officers 31 enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Racal Decca 52690 ARPA and 1690 I band navigation radars |
| Electronic warfare and 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 |
RFA Blue Rover (A270) was a fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. It went to the Portuguese Navy in 1993 as Berrio.
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