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History |
United Kingdom |
Name | HMS Challenger |
Ordered | 9 October 1979[2] |
Builder | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock[1] |
Launched | 19 May 1981[1] |
Commissioned | 1983[2] |
Decommissioned | 1990 (Royal Navy) |
Fate | Sold, 1993 |
Notes | In Royal Navy Service, equipped with a Towed Unmanned Submersible (TUMS), and could carry and deploy LR5 submarine rescue submersible. |
Namibia |
Name | MV Ya Toivo |
Namesake | Andimba Toivo ya Toivo |
Operator | |
Acquired | 2000 |
In service | December 2000 |
Identification | IMO number: 7907697 |
Status | In active service |
Notes | Fitted out and operated as a mining vessel (seabed diamond extraction) |
General characteristics (as built) |
Type | Seabed Operations Vessel[1] |
Displacement |
- 6,500 t (6,397 long tons) standard
- 7,185 t (7,072 long tons) full[1]
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Length | 134.1 m (440 ft 0 in) o/a[1] |
Beam | 18 m (59 ft 1 in)[1] |
Draught | 5 m (16 ft 5 in)[1] |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 15 knots, approx. |
Complement | 185[2] |
Sensors and processing systems | Sonar: Plessey Type 193M[2] |
Aviation facilities | Helicopter deck (in Namibian service) |