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ICE-PATROL AND SURVEY SHIP HMS Scott At Anchor near Port Lockroy in the Antarctic.Displacement: 13,500 t (13,300 long tons; 14,900 short tons)
Length: 131.1 m (430 ft)
Beam: 21.5 m (71 ft)
Draught: 8.3 m (27 ft)
Propulsion:
2 Krupp MaK 9M32 9-cylinder diesel engines
Single shaft with controllable-pitch propeller
Retractable bow thruster
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement: 78
Sensors and
processing systems:
Kelvin Hughes ARPA 1626, I-band navigation radar
Sonar array sounding system (SASS)
Proton magnetometer
Sonar 2090 ocean environment sensor
SASS IV multibeam depth-sounder
HMS Scott is an ocean survey vessel of the Royal Navy, and the only vessel of her class. She is the third Royal Navy ship to carry the name, and the second to be named after the Antarctic explorer, Robert Falcon Scott. She was ordered to replace the survey ship HMS Hecla
The Ministry of Defence stated in October 2017 that the planned out-of-service date for Scott is 2022.