Albion-class landing platform dock

	HMS Bulwark, an Albion-class landing platform dock
Class overview
Name	Albion class
Builders	BAE Systems Marine
Operators	Royal Navy
Preceded by	Fearless class
Cost	£225 million per unit
Built	2
In service	2
Active	1 (+1 at extended readiness - uncrewed reserve)
General characteristics
Type	Landing platform dock
Displacement	19,560 t (19,250 long tons; 21,560 short tons)
Length	176 m (577 ft)
Beam	28.9 m (95 ft)
Draught	7.1 m (23 ft)
Installed power	2 × Wärtsilä Vasa 16V 32E diesel generators; 2 × Wärtsilä Vasa 4R 32E diesel generators;
Propulsion	GE power conversion full electric propulsion system, 2 × motors and drives; Bow thruster;
Speed	18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h)
Range	8,000 miles (7,000 nmi; 13,000 km)
Boats & landing ; craft carried	4 × LCU MK10; 4 × LCVP MK5;
Capacity	67 vehicles
Troops	405 Royal Marines (710 overload)
Complement	325
Sensors and ; processing systems	2 × Type 1007/8 I-band radars; 1 × Type 996 E/F band radar; 1 × Type 997 E/F-band radar (from 2011);
Armament	2 × 20mm Phalanx CIWS; 2 × 20mm GAM-BO1 cannon; 4 × General purpose machine guns;
Aviation facilities	Two landing spots for helicopters up-to the size of a Chinook.

The Albion-class landing platform dock is a class of amphibious warfare ship in service with the Royal Navy. The class consists of two vessels, HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark, ordered in 1996 to replace the ageing Fearless class. Both ships were built by BAE Systems Marine at the former Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering yard in Barrow-in-Furness. Albion was commissioned in 2003 and Bulwark in 2004. Each of the ships has a crew of 325 and can accommodate up to 405 troops. Thirty-one large trucks and thirty-six smaller vehicles and main battle tanks can be carried inside the vehicle deck. To disembark troops and vehicles, the vessels are equipped with eight landing craft.

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