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ATLANTIC CONVEYOR aviation support ships (1969-1970/1982)


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Atlantic Conveyor 1982

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Atlantic Causeway   1 Swan Hunter, Walker on Tyne   2.4.1969 11.1969 // 14.4.1982 returned late 1982
Atlantic Conveyor   2 Swan Hunter, Walker on Tyne   25.8.1969 3.1970 // 14.4.1982 sunk 28.5.1982


Technical data


Displacement standard, t14950 BRT 18146 dwt
Displacement full, t~35000
Length, m

212.0 oa 197.0 pp

Breadth, m

28.1

Draught, m9.0
No of shafts

2

Machinery4 sets Associated Electrical Industries geared steam turbines, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.38500
Max speed, kts

23

Fuel, toil
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

14 VSTOL attackers, 11 helicopters

Electronic equipment

radars

Complement165


Air group


Year VSTOL attackers Helicopters
5.1982, Atlantic Causeway --- 8 Sea King HAS.2A, 20 Wessex HU.5
5.1982, Atlantic Conveyor 8 Sea Harrier FRS.1, 6 Harrier GR.3 4 Chinook HC.1, 6 Wessex


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<i>Atlantic Conveyor</i> 1982
Atlantic Conveyor 1982


Aircraft facilities

Aircraft based on deck.

Project history

Former container ships, requisitioned by MoD and used as aircraft support ships. Aircraft was based on deck and all aircraft equipment was stowed in containers.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Atlantic Conveyor was attacked 25.5.1982 in 90nm NE of Port Stanley (Falklands) by two Argentine Super Etendard fighter-bombers, one AM39 Exoset ASM hit the ships. Atlantic Conveyor sunk 28.5.1982 under tow.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.