HMS Stalker (L3515)
HMS Stalker in 2010 | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Stalker |
| Builder | Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt |
| Launched | 16 December 1944 |
| Commissioned | 1947 |
| Decommissioned | May 1970 |
| Renamed | Was LST 3515 until 1947 |
| Reclassified | Submarine support ship in 1958 |
| Fate |
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| General characteristics | |
| Type | Landing Ship, Tank Mk III |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 345.57 ft (105.33 m) |
| Beam | 53.97 ft (16.45 m) |
| Draught | 12 ft 5 in (3.78 m) |
| Depth | 11.51 ft (3.51 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h) |
| Range | 1400 tons of oil |
| Capacity |
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| Complement | 118-190 |
| Armament |
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HMS Stalker was a Mark III LST (Landing Ship, Tank) that was built during the later part of the Second World War, and became the last steam-driven LST to be scrapped. She initially entered service under the designation LST 3515, but was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1947 as HMS Stalker.
The ship was built by Canadian Yarrow at Esquimalt. She was completed too late to see action in the war, and eventually served in a submarine support role in Northern Ireland, before being transferred to Rosyth dockyard as part of the nuclear submarine refit support.