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HMS Fawn (A325)

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History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Fawn
BuilderBrooke Marine, Lowestoft, England
Launched29 February 1968
CommissionedOctober 1968
Decommissioned1991
IdentificationIMO number8843317
FateSold for use in commercial surveying 1992. Renamed Red Fulmar
General characteristics
Displacement1,160 long tons (1,179 t) full
Length57.7 m (189 ft 4 in)
Beam13 m (42 ft 8 in)
Propulsion4 × Lister Blackstone ER58M 8-cylinder diesel engines, 2,640 bhp (1,969 kW), twin screws
Speed15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement44

HMS Fawn, pennant number A325, was a Bulldog-class hydrographic survey ship of the British Royal Navy. On 20 November 1988 she was involved in an incident with a Guatemalan gunboat in Guatemalan waters while HMS Fawn was carrying out peaceful and legitimate hydrographic survey work in the high seas in the Gulf of Honduras. A protest was made to the Guatemalan Government. Fawn was paid off in October 1991 and sold to interests in West Germany to become an offshore support vessel of the West African and Chinese coasts under the name Red Fulmar.