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Round Table-class landing ship logistics
RFA Sir Bedivere is a round Table-class landing ship logistics. It was built by Hawthorn Leslie.
United KingdomSir Bedivere / Almirante Saboia · source-pictured Brazilian G25 landing ship underway during Aspirantex 2020
Marinha do Brasil · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Resized / optimised · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source ↗ · ModifiedRFA Sir Bedivere
Bedivere
Hawthorn Leslie
31 October 1965
20 July 1966
18 May 1967
18 February 2008
Marchwood , Hampshire
Sold to Brazil
IMO number : 6617154 MMSI number : 710482000 Callsign : PWSB
" Sua praia, nossa missão! " ("Your beach, our mission!")
"Hippo"
In service
Round Table-class landing ship logistics
6,700 tonnes full load
137 m (449 ft 6 in)
20 m (65 ft 7 in)
3.98 m (13 ft 1 in)
2 × Mirrless Blackstone diesels 2 shafts
17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
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4 × Oerlikon 20 mm guns 4 × 7.62 mm machine guns
helicopters on aft platform, no hangar
On 16 November 1982, she returned from the Falklands with the bodies of 64 members of the British Forces (52 soldiers, 11 Royal Marines, and a Chinese laundryman) whose families had wanted their remains returned.
The ship deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1991 in support of Operation Granby .
In 1994, the ship was modernised in a service life extension programme to give it an extra 15 years. The ship was lengthened by 12 metres, had its superstructure altered to a more modern design, the engines were replaced, and the ship's bow thrusters were changed for more powerful models.
As Almirante Saboia , she undertook several voyages between Port-au-Prince and Rio de Janeiro in support of Brazilian Army and Marine Corps troops in United Nations service during MINUSTAH . On 12 January 2010, she joined the task force that took part in the Brazilian Navy's ASPIRANTEX yearly training exercise, which included the frigates Niterói , Constituição and Independência , the tanker Almirante Gastão Motta , as well as the submarines Tupi and Tikuna , sailing under the command of Contra-Almirante César Sidonio Daiha Moreira de Souza. During the course of ASPIRANTEX 2010, Almirante Saboia visited the ports of Salvador, Recife, Cabedelo and Natal. However, she was requisitioned after the earthquake , leaving Rio de Janeiro on 1 February with 700 tons of supplies, including both humanitarian aid as well as military supplies for the Brazilian MINUSTAH contingent. She arrived on 17 February, spending the next 30 days in the Caribbean country.
She later took part in the Haiti XIV commission between 21 May and 2 August 2012, carrying 260 tons of Marine Corps and Army supplies to MINUSTAH, and returning to Rio with roughly 300 tons of damaged vehicles and equipment for maintenance.
RFA Sir Bedivere (L3004) was a Landing Ship Logistic of the Round Table class . She saw service in the Falklands War , the Persian Gulf and Sierra Leone . In 2009, she was commissioned into the Brazilian Navy and renamed NDCC Almirante Saboia (G25) , where she saw service in Haiti . As of March 2026, she is actively sailing in Brazilian service.
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RFA Sir Bedivere equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
BrazilNavy exact named equipment holdings: Almirante Saboia (ex-UK Sir Bedivere) (capacity 1 med hel; 18 MBT; 340 troops). Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: PRINCIPAL AMPHIBIOUS SHIPS / LSLH. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
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