- RFA Blue Rover (A270)
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NRP Bérrio, 2007
Career (UK) 
Ordered: January 1968 Laid down: 30 December 1968 Launched: 11 November 1969 Commissioned: 15 July 1970 Decommissioned: 23 February 1993 Fate: Purchased by the Portuguese Navy and renamed NRP BERRIO on 31 March 1993 General characteristics Displacement: 11522 tons full load Length: 461 ft 04 in (140.61 m) Beam: 63 ft 02 in (19.25 m) Draught: 24 ft 00 in (7.3 m) Propulsion: (orig) 2 x 16 cyl Ruston diesels (post 1974) 2 x 16 cyl Peilstick diesels Speed: 19 knots Range: 15,000 miles (24,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) Capacity: 3,000 m³ of fuel Complement: 16 officers
31 enlistedSensors and
processing systems:Sperry Marine Visionmaster radars and ECDIS. 1690 I band navigation radars Electronic warfare
and decoys:2 × Corvus and 2 × Plessey Shield decoy launchers
Graseby Type 182 towed torpedo decoyArmament: 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm guns
2 × 7.62 mm machine gunsAircraft carried: Helicopter deck but no hangar RFA Blue Rover (A270) was a fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. It went to the Portuguese Navy in 1993 as Berrio.
Black Rover · Blue Rover · Gold Rover · Green Rover · Grey Rover
Categories:- Ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
- Tankers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
- Rover class tankers
- Falklands War naval ships of the United Kingdom
- 1969 ships
- Auxiliary ships of the Portuguese Navy
- United Kingdom naval auxiliary ship stubs
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