<p>The Royal Fleet Auxiliary "Gold Rover" and the USS Battleship "Iowa" in Portsmouth Naval Base. July 1989.
</p><p>Name: RFA Gold Rover
Ordered: November 1971
Builder: Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Launched: 7 March 1973
Commissioned: 22 March 1974
Status: Active in service
General characteristics 
Class &amp; type: Rover Class
Displacement: 11522 tons full load
Length: 461 ft 04 in (140.61 m)
Beam: 63 ft 02 in (19.25 m)
Draught: 23 ft 11 in (7.29 m)
Installed power: 15,300 shp
Propulsion: 2 x 16 cyl Pielstick diesels
Speed: 19 knots
Range: 15,000 miles (24,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Endurance: 8,000 nautical miles
Capacity: 3,000 m³ of fuel
Complement: 16 officers  31 ratings
Crew: 60+
Sensors and processing systems:
Sperry Marine Visionmaster radars and ECDIS. 1690 I band navigation radars
Electronic warfare  &amp; decoys:
2 × Corvus and 2 × Plessey Shield decoy launchers Graseby Type 182 towed torpedo decoy
Armament: 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm guns 2 × 7.62 mm machine guns
Aircraft carried: Helicopter deck but no hangar
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Camera: Olympus OM1 35mm SLR.
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