RFA Empire Gull
1945 landing ship, tank of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see SS Empire Gull and HMS Trouncer.
RFA Empire Gull (L3513) was a landing ship, tank of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was familiarly known as the "Black Pig"[2] and was one of the last serving British LSTs. She was built as LST 3523, one of the Empire Ships, and later commissioned as HMS Trouncer.[3] During the Suez Crisis she was pressed into Government service as SS Empire Gull. In 1970 she was transferred to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary as RFA Empire Gull, serving for ten years before being scrapped.
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Empire Gull (L3513) | |
History | |
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Port of registry | United Kingdom (1956–70) |
Ordered | 24 April 1944 |
Builder | G.T. Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd., Lauzon, Quebec |
Yard number | 970 |
Laid down | 20 December 1944 |
Launched | 9 July 1945 |
Commissioned | October 1945 |
Decommissioned | 3 September 1978 |
Identification | IMO number: 5103704 |
Fate | Arrived Santander for demolition, 18 March 1980 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Landing Ship, Tank |
Tonnage | 4,820 GRT |
Displacement | 4,980 long tons (5,060 t) full load |
Length | 347 ft 6 in (105.92 m) |
Beam | 55 ft 1 in (16.79 m) |
Draught | 12 ft 2.5 in (3.721 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × 4-cylinder triple expansion[1] steam engines |
Speed | 10 knots (12 mph; 19 km/h)[1] |
Complement | 63, plus accommodation for 80 troops |
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