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HMS Ocean was a Landing Platform Helicopter, formerly the UK's helicopter carrier and the fleet flagship of the Royal Navy.[6] She was designed to support amphibious landing operations and to support the staff of Commander UK Amphibious Force and Commander UK Landing Force. She was constructed in the mid-1990s by Kvaerner Govan on the River Clyde and fitted out by VSEL at Barrow-in-Furness prior to trials and subsequent acceptance in service. Ocean was commissioned in September 1998 at her home port HMNB Devonport, Plymouth.
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Name | HMS Ocean |
Operator | Royal Navy |
Ordered | 11 May 1993 |
Builder | Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd, Kværner (Govan) |
Laid down | 30 May 1994 |
Launched | 11 October 1995 |
Sponsored by | Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom |
Commissioned | 30 September 1998 |
Decommissioned | 27 March 2018[1] |
Refit | Major 2012–2014 |
Homeport | HMNB Devonport, Plymouth |
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Motto | Ex undis surgit victoria (From the waves rises victory) |
Honours and awards | Al Faw 2003 |
Fate | Sold to Brazil[2] |
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Name | NAM Atlântico |
Operator | Brazilian Navy |
Acquired | Purchased on 19 February 2018, from the Royal Navy |
Commissioned | 29 June 2018 |
Homeport | Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro |
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Motto | Nosso navio, nosso mar (Our ship, our sea) |
Status | Active |
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Class and type | Landing Platform Helicopter |
Displacement | 21,500 t (21,200 long tons; 23,700 short tons)[3] |
Length | 203.4 m (667 ft)[4] |
Beam | 35 m (115 ft)[4] |
Draught | 6.5 m (21 ft)[4] |
Propulsion | 2 × Crossley Pielstick 12 cylinder |
Speed | 18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h) cruise |
Range | 8,000 miles (13,000 km)[5] |
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Capacity | 40 vehicles[4] |
Troops | 830 Royal Marines[4] |
Crew | 285 + 180 FAA/RAF[4] |
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In December 2017, the Brazilian Navy confirmed the purchase of the ship for £84.6 million. Following her decommissioning from Royal Navy service on 27 March 2018, she arrived in Rio de Janeiro on 25 August 2018,[7] with the intention of being commissioned as Atlântico and fully operational by 2020.[8][2][9]