HMS FEARLESS L10

HMS FEARLESS L10

Class……………………………Fearless-class Assault Ship

Builder……………………….Harland and Wolff, Belfast

Yard number……………….723

Laid down.………………….27 July 1962.

Launched….…………………19 December 1963.

Completed.………………….25 November 1965.

Propulsion.………………….2 shafts driven by English Electric geared steam turbines , steam supplied by 2 Babcock and Wilcox oil fired boilers.

Speed.………………………… 21 knots

Range…………………………. 5000 nm at 20 knots

Fate

2002: Decommissioned and laid up in Fareham Creek awaiting disposal.

2007: Towed to Ghent for breaking up

 

Fearless featured in the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me as the ship that picks up Bond's escape pod. The filming took place the previous year near the island of Malta.

 

HMS FEARLESS on 31 July 1990 at Devonport, Plymouth

 

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