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    • L100 HMAS Choules

    AU Royal Australian Navy

    2006 to 2011 - UK Royal Fleet Auxiliary - L3006 RFA Largs Bay    



    2011 to present    



    L100 HMAS Choules

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    IMO: 9240756
    MMSI: 503688000
    Flight Deck:
    Call Sign: VKJC


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    History of UK L3006 RFA Largs Bay

    2000-dec-18Ordered
    2001-oct-1Laid downoriginally proposed to be named Quiberon Bay
    2003-jul-18Launched
    2006-mar-2Trialscontractors trials before final completion.
    2006-dec-17Commissioned
    2007-mar-3Suffered engine room fire en route HMNB Devonport. Subsequently towed into Plymouth Sound, arriving on 6 Mar.
    2007-nov-17Deployment815 NAS 215 Flt Lynx HMA.8 embarked RFA Largs Bay for a 7 month anti-narcotics mission in the Caribbean, returning in Jun 2008.
    2008-junAircraftassigned 815 Sq Lynx HMA.8 ZD261 as Largs Bay Flt / 352 by Jun 2008 until c May 2009
    2008-jun-4Port VisitKYGeorge Town HSB visiting Grand Cayman
    2008-julPort VisitUKHMNB Portsmouth Meet Your Navy 2008 at HMNB Portsmouth 25-27 Jul 2008 for Meet Your Navy
    2009Aircraft815 NAS 219 Flt Lynx HMA.8 embarked RFA Largs Bay for a South Atlantic deployment
    2009-jul-4Port VisitTo George Town, Grand Cayman, departing 6 Jul.
    2010-feb-3DeploymentHTPort au Prince Operation Panlake In response to the magnitude 7.0 earthquake which hit Haiti on 12 Jan 2010, RFA Largs Bay left SMC Marchwood on her humanitarian mission arriving off Port au Prince on 18 Feb, returning on 29 Mar.
    2010-julDeployment Exercise Auriga 2010 Participated in the Amphibious component of Ex Auriga, with USS Kearsarge, HMS Albion and HMS Ocean, until Aug 2010.
    2011-aprDecommissionedTo decommission as part of the UK Oct 2010 Strategic Defence Review
    2011-apr-6Fate: transferedSold to Australia as ADFS Choules.

    History of AU L100 HMAS Choules

    2011-dec-13CommissionedFremantle Harbour Commissioning into RAN as HMAS Choules (L100) at Fremantle, to replace recently decommissioned HMAS Kanimbla.
    2013-jul-15DeploymentSWBTA Talisman Saber 2013 Jul13 - Aug13 at the coast of Shoalwater Bay Training Area
    2015-jul-7DeploymentDundee Beach Talisman Sabre 2015 participated in Exercise Talisman Sabre 15, carrying 2nd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR).
    2017-mar-28DeploymentHamilton Island Airport Relief Operations Cyclone Debbie called at Brisbane to take on emergency relief supplies for Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, in the aftermath of Cyclone Debbie.
    2018-marTrialsConducted first of type operating trials in the Coral Sea with Army CH-47F A15-306, from 5 Avn Regt.
    2018-mar-26NEWS Chinook First Flight Trials on HMAS Choules
    2020-jan-2Aircraftoff Mallacoota Bushfire Assist Australian Bushfires 2019-2020 standing off Mallacoota in company with mv Sycamore, to assist in evacuation of population after some of the worst bush fires in Australian recorded history. HMAS Choules deployed with 808 Sq NH-90 A40-045 embarked.
    2020-oct-27NEWS Singapore Chinook on HMAS Adelaide

    Specifications

    		    

        from Bay class
    177length (m)
    26beam (m)
    5.10draught (m)
    18max speed (knots)
    4Naval Gun Mark 44 6 barrelled 7.62mm mingun
    2Naval Gun Oerlikon 30mm cannon
    2Close-In Weapon System CIWS Phalanx 20 mm

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