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| Career | |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | |
| Launched: | October 4 1967 |
| Commissioned: | March 23 1968 |
| Fate: | In service |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5,674 tonness |
| Length: | 125.5 metres |
| Beam: | 18.2 metres |
| Draught: | 3.9 metres |
| Speed: | 16 knots |
| Complement: | 51 |
| Propulsion: | |
| Range: | |
| Armament: | 4 Oerlikon 20mm guns
4 7.62mm machine guns |
| Aviation: | |
RFA Sir Percivale is a Round Table class Landing Ship Logistics. It was originally commissioned into British Army service in 1968, but was taken over by the Royal Navy along with the other members of the clas in 1970. The first twelve years of the ship's life were quiet, until the Falklands War broke out in April 1982. Along with all the Navy's other amphibious assault shippign, Sir Percivale went south to participate in the recapture of the Falkland Islands. Unlike the Sir Galahad and the Sir Lancelot, the ship emerged unscathed from the conflict.
The ship has also served in the Gulf War in 1991, and during operations connected with Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003