1 LCU Mark 10, 1 LCM-8, or 2 LCVPs (Royal Marines version or RAN version)
2 Mexeflote powered rafts
Capacity
1,150 linear metres of vehicles (up to 24 Challenger 2 tanks, 32 M1A1 Abrams tanks, or 150 light trucks)
Cargo capacity of 200 tons ammunition or 24 TEU containers
Troops
356 standard or 700 overload
Complement
RFA: 60-70 core, increased for operational deployments
RAN - 158 fully crewed
Sensors and processing systems
RAN service:
EID ICCS integrated communications control system
CEAFAR-S multi-function radar
Armament
RFA service
Fit to receive:
Phalanx CIWS
30 mm DS30B cannon
RAN service:
1 Phalanx CIWS[2]
Aircraft carried
Blackhawk and Seahawk helicopters frequently embarked;[1] flight deck can operate helicopters up to Chinook size
Aviation facilities
No permanent hangar; temporary hangar can be fitted.
HMAS Choules (L100) is a Bay-class landing ship that served with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) from 2006 to 2011, before being purchased by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The vessel was built as RFA Largs Bay by Swan Hunter in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear. She was named after Largs Bay in Ayrshire, Scotland, and entered service in November 2006. During her career with the RFA, Largs Bay served as the British ship assigned to patrol the Falkland Islands in 2008, and delivered relief supplies following the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
At the end of 2010, Largs Bay was marked as one of the vessels to be removed from service under the Strategic Defence and Security Review. She was offered for sale, with the RAN announced as the successful bidder in April 2011. After modifications to make her more suited for Australian operating conditions, the vessel was commissioned in December 2011 as HMAS Choules, named after Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy Chief Petty Officer Claude Choules. A propulsion transformer failure kept the ship out of service between July 2012 and April 2013.
^"HMAS Choules".
^"The future of Phalanx in the RAN - Australian Defence Magazine".
commissioned in December 2011 as HMASChoules, named after Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy Chief Petty Officer Claude Choules. A propulsion transformer...
the landing ship HMASChoules was named after him, only the second Royal Australian Navy vessel named after a sailor. Claude Choules was born in Bridge...
two Canberra-class landing helicopter dock ships and the landing ship HMASChoules. Four Armidale-class patrol boats perform coastal and economic exclusion...
refit to make her suitable for RAN services, she was commissioned as HMASChoules in December 2011. As a 16,000-tonne amphibious Landing Ship Dock capable...
without port facilities. .In the 2016 defence white paper it revealed that HMASChoules would fulfill this role. Following the early decommissioning of both...
(renamed HMASChoules for Australian service), two Mexeflotes were also acquired. A Mexeflote suspended from the starboard flank of HMASChoules RFA Lyme...
and is said to combine 70% of the load capacity of HMASChoules and 70% of the fuel capacity of HMAS Success, the AOR decommissioned that year. Specific...
including HMAS Australia, three destroyers, and two each of cruisers and submarines, departed for Rabaul. A few days later, on 9 September, HMAS Melbourne...
arm of the RAN as at January 2021 is made up of; HMASChoules, a Bay-class LSD, HMAS Adelaide and HMAS Canberra, both of which are Canberra-class LHD's...
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