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| Launched: | October 4 1967 |
| Commissioned: | March 23 1968 |
| Decommissioned: | 17 August 2004 |
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| Displacement: | 5,674 tonnes |
| Length: | 125.5 metres |
| Beam: | 18.2 metres |
| Draught: | 3.9 metres |
| Propulsion: | Two ten-cylinder four-stroke turbo-charged Mirrlees National diesels (9,400hp) plus one 400hp bowthruster |
| Speed: | 16 knots |
| Range: | 8,000 miles at 15 knots |
| Complement: | 51 |
| Armament: | Four Oerlikon 20mm guns Four 7.62mm machine guns |
| Aircraft: | One spot for Westland Sea King or Westland Lynx aft, one spot for CH-47 Chinook, Sea King or Lynx on main vehicle deck |
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RFA Sir Percivale (L3036) is a Round Table class Landing Ship Logistics. It was originally commissioned into British Army service in 1968, but was taken over by the Royal Navy along with the other members of the clas in 1970. The first twelve years of the ship's life were quiet, with some time spent in the Pacific, until the Falklands War broke out in April 1982. Along with all the Navy's other amphibious assault shipping, Sir Percivale went south to participate in the recapture of the Falkland IslandsThe Falkland Islands is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic consisting of two main islands known as East Falkland and West Falkland and a number of smaller islands. Sovereignty of the islands is also claimed by Argentina wher. Unlike the Sir Galahad and the Sir Lancelot, the ship emerged unscathed from the conflict.
The ship also served in the Gulf WarSee also: 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Persian Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations led by the United States. The war started with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. The result of the war was a decisive victory in 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac and twice deployed to the Adriatic to support British operations in the BalkansThe Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe southeastern Europe (see the Definitions and boundaries section below). The region has a combined area of 550,000 kmē and a population of around 53 million. The countries of Albania, Bosnia. In 1996 Sir Percivale took part in combined exercises with Jordan, followed by Green Wader 96, the first exercise of the then newly formed Amphibious Squadron of the Joint Rapid Deployment Force. In 1997, the ship took part in the large Ocean Wave 97 deployment to the far east and was present for the handover of Hong KongThe Hong Kong Special Administrative Region or Hong Kong (, pinyin: Xinggng, WG: Hsiang-kang, Cantonese IPA, Jyutping or Penkyamp: hoeng1 gong2, meaning Fragrant Harbour , is one of two Special Administrative Regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of Chi to the Chinese. Following this ceremony, Sir Percivale escorted the ships of the former Hong Kong Squadron to their new owners in the PhilippinesThe Republic of the Philippines is an island nation consisting of an archipelago of 7,107 islands, lying in the tropical western Pacific Ocean about 100 kilometers southeast of mainland Asia. Spain (1521-1898) and the United States (1898-1946), colonized. During other parts of Ocean Wave, the ship took Royal Marines to BruneiThe Sultanate of Brunei more commonly referred to as Brunei Darussalam or simply Brunei is an oil-rich country located on the island of Borneo, in southeast Asia. Apart from its coastline with the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by Malaysia., Singapore and Thailand for various exercises. 1998 saw further exercises as Sir Percivale took part in practice amphibious assaults in Norway, France and Spain.
In 2000, Sir Percivale was deployed to Sierra Leone to support British forces training the army of that country. In September 2000, the ship was alongside in Freetown when British forces who had been taken hostge were rescued in a raid by the Parachute Regiment and the SAS. Since then the ship has been deployed during operations connected with Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.
The ship was to have a SLEP overhaul, but an equivalent overhaul of Sir Bedivere proved so costly that plans were abandoned and new ships were procured instead.
Sir Percivale was decommissoned on 17 August 2004.
| Round Table-class landing ship logistics |
| Sir Lancelot | Sir Bedivere | Sir Galahad | Sir Geraint | Sir Percivale | Sir Tristram |
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