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Royal Navy / Royal Fleet Auxilary - Dock
Landing Ship L 3008 RFA Mounts Bay |
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class: Dock Landing Ship - LSD / Bay
class Builder: BAE Systems Naval Ships, Govan, Glasgow, Scotland, UK STATUS: Awarded: November 19, 2001 Laid down: August 25, 2002 Launched: April 9, 2004 In Service: July 13, 2006 IN SERVICE Homeport: ? Technical Data: see INFO > Bay class Dock Landing Ship |
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Mounts Bay took part in the 2006 Vela Deployment. The deployment
lasted from 11 September until 22 November 2006. In total
approximately 3,000 British personnel and eleven ships of the Royal
Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary were involved. This deployment saw
for the first time, an Albion-class vessel, HMS Albion taking part
in amphibious operations with a Bay class vessel. The deployment was
divided into two phases, the first in local waters and the second in
waters off the coast of Sierra Leone. For this deployment she was
fitted with the Bowman communications system. Mounts Bay demonstrated her lifting capability by transporting in excess of 130 vehicles, for the passage from the UK via Lisbon to Sierra Leone. After completing the Vela Deployment, she returned to the UK to load vehicles and equipment for Exercise Clockwork in northern Norway. She reached Sørreisa on 9 December. Sørreisa is within the Arctic Circle and is the furthest north any Bay-class vessel has been so far. After discharging her cargo, Mounts Bay returned to the UK, successfully completing operations from the Equator to the Arctic Circle in the last three months of 2006. She attended the Dover Maritime Careers Festival on 23-24 March 2007, mooring at the Dover Western Docks. She was also in Fowey on 22 August 2008 for the regatta week. Mounts Bay was involved in Exercise Joint Warrior 2008, along with HMS Bulwark, which acted as the Fleets Amphibious Flagship. HMS Ark Royal and HMS Illustrious also took part in the two week exercise off Scotland. She attended The Tall Ships' Races event in Belfast Northern Ireland between 14-17 August 2009 which was the finishing line for the competition. In April 2011, she was deployed as part of the Response Force Task Group's COUGAR'11 deployment. In early 2012, she joined the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious and fleet flagship HMS Bulwark to participate in Exercise ‘Joint Warrior’ and other training missions with warships from the United States, Norway and the Netherlands. On Armed Forces Day 2012, 30 June, she fired the salute in Plymouth as she steamed past HMS Argyll, with the Earl of Wessex and the First Sea Lord on board. Mounts Bay is scheduled to depart for Exercise COUGAR 2013, with Viking armoured vehicles on board. In January 2016, she set sail for the Mediterranean, carrying the new Governor of Gibraltar, Ed Davis. She has further been deployed to the Aegean Sea to help NATO forces deal with the European migrant crisis. Mounts Bay docked at Gibraltar for one month of repairs. On 19 May 2016 she was deployed to assist in the search for the missing EgyptAir flight MS804 in the Mediterranean between Crete and Egypt. By June 2016 she was tasked to the European Union's Operation Sophia to target Daesh gun and people traffickers. After undertaking maintenance in Falmouth in March 2017, Mounts Bay deployed to the Caribbean to provide support during the 2017 hurricane season. She was tasked to assist in HADR operations at Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, and Turks and Caicos Islands in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma in September 2017 obtaining widespread media coverage. In September 2019, Mounts Bay delivered essential supplies to the Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian. In March 2022, Mounts Bay participated in Cold Response 2022, a multinational NATO military exercise in Norway occurring biennially. source: wikipedia |
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Mount's Bay ... (Cornish: Baya an Garrek) is a large, sweeping bay on the English Channel coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom, stretching from the Lizard Point to Gwennap Head. |
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