RFA Lyme Bay (L3007)

RFA Lyme Bay berthed at Portland, August 2007
Career
Name:	Lyme Bay
Ordered:	19 December 2000
Builder:	Swan Hunter / BAE Systems, Govan, Glasgow
Laid down:	1 October 2001
Launched:	26 August 2005
Commissioned:	8 August 2007
Identification:	IMO number: 9240768
Status:	in active service, as of 2024
General characteristics
Class and type:	Bay class landing ship dock
Displacement:	16,190 t (15,934 long tons) full load
Length:	176.6 m (579 ft 5 in)
Beam:	26.4 m (86 ft 7 in)
Draught:	5.1 m (16 ft 9 in)
Propulsion:	2 × Wartsila 8L26 engines 2 × Wartsila 12V26 engines
Speed:	18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h)
Range:	8,000 nmi (15,000 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h)
Capacity:	356 troops; 1,200 Linear metres of vehicles (e.g. 32 Challenger 2 MBT's or 150 light trucks); 12 × 40 FEU or 24 × 20 TEU containers, 2 Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel (LCVP) Mk.5 and 1 Landing Craft Utility (LCU) Mk 10; two Mexeflote powered rafts
Complement:	59
Armament:	• 2 × 7.62mm Mk.44 Miniguns • 6 × 7.62mm L7 GPMGs
Aircraft carried:	Twin spot flight deck with limited facilities to transport and operate Merlin or Chinook helicopters, and V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft

RFA Lyme Bay (L3007) is a Bay class auxiliary landing ship dock (LSD(A)) of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

Lyme Bay was built by Swan Hunter at Wallsend on the River Tyne, being the last ship built on the river. On July 13, 2006 it was announced that, due to delays and cost over-runs, fitting out of Lyme Bay would be transferred from Swan Hunter and completed by BAE Systems at Scotstoun. Lyme Bay arrived on the River Clyde on July 22, 2006.