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HMS Challenger (K07)
Royal Navy saturation diving support vessel / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Challenger.
HMS Challenger (pennant number K07) was a Royal Navy diving support vessel, operational from 1984 to 1990.
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Name | HMS Challenger |
Ordered | 9 October 1979[1] |
Builder | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock[2] |
Launched | 19 May 1981[2] |
Commissioned | 1983[1] |
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. |
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Name | MV Ya Toivo |
Namesake | Andimba Toivo ya Toivo |
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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[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 134.1 m (440 ft 0 in) o/a[2] |
Beam | 18 m (59 ft 1 in)[2] |
Draught | 5 m (16 ft 5 in)[2] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 15 knots, approx. |
Complement | 185[1] |
Sensors and processing systems | Sonar: Plessey Type 193M[1] |
Aviation facilities | Helicopter deck (in Namibian service) |
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Challenger had a saturation diving system allowing 12 divers to live in relative comfort in a large diving chamber amidships.[4]