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L100 HMAS Choules

AU Royal Australian Navy

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




L100 HMAS Choules

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





  Events


History of UK RFA Largs Bay L3006

2000-dec-18OrderedOrdered
2001-oct-01Laid downLaid down originally proposed to be named Quiberon Bay
2003-jul-18LaunchedLaunched
2006-mar-02TrialsTrials contractors trials before final completion.
2006-dec-17CommissionedCommissioned
2007-mar-03 Suffered engine room fire en route HMNB Devonport. Subsequently towed into Plymouth Sound, arriving on 6 Mar.
2007-nov-17DeploymentDeployment 815 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-junAircraftAircraft assigned 815 Sq Lynx HMA.8 ZD261 as Largs Bay Flt / 352 by Jun 2008 until c May 2009
2008-jun-04Port VisitPort Visit KY George Town HSB visiting Grand Cayman
2008-julPort VisitPort Visit UK HMNB Portsmouth Meet Your Navy 2008 at HMNB Portsmouth 25-27 Jul 2008 for Meet Your Navy
2009AircraftAircraft 815 NAS 219 Flt Lynx HMA.8 embarked RFA Largs Bay for a South Atlantic deployment
2009-jul-04Port VisitPort Visit To George Town, Grand Cayman, departing 6 Jul.
2010-feb-03DeploymentDeployment HT Port 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-julDeploymentDeployment Exercise Auriga 2010 Participated in the Amphibious component of Ex Auriga, with USS Kearsarge, HMS Albion and HMS Ocean, until Aug 2010.
2011-aprDecommissionedDecommissioned To decommission as part of the UK Oct 2010 Strategic Defence Review
2011-apr-06Fate: transferedFate: transfered Sold to Australia as ADFS Choules.

History of AU HMAS Choules L100

2011-dec-13CommissionedCommissioned Fremantle Harbour Commissioning into RAN as HMAS Choules (L100) at Fremantle, to replace recently decommissioned HMAS Kanimbla.
2013-jul-15DeploymentDeployment SWBTA Talisman Saber 2013 Jul13 - Aug13 at the coast of Shoalwater Bay Training Area
2015-jul-07DeploymentDeployment Dundee Beach Talisman Sabre 2015 participated in Exercise Talisman Sabre 15, carrying 2nd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR).
2017-mar-28DeploymentDeployment Hamilton 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-marTrialsTrials Conducted 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-02AircraftAircraft off 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



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  Specifications


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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