HMS Fawn (A325)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Fawn.

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Fawn
Builder	Brooke Marine, Lowestoft, England
Launched	29 February 1968
Commissioned	October 1968
Decommissioned	1991
Identification	IMO number: 8843317
Fate	Sold for use in commercial surveying 1992. Renamed Red Fulmar
General characteristics
Displacement	1,160 long tons (1,179 t) full
Length	57.7 m (189 ft 4 in)
Beam	13 m (42 ft 8 in)
Propulsion	4 × Lister Blackstone ER58M 8-cylinder diesel engines, 2,640 bhp (1,969 kW), twin screws
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	44

HMS Fawn, pennant number A325, was a Bulldog-class hydrographic survey ship of the British Royal Navy.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.

References

1. Moore, John, ed. (1981). Jane's Fighting Ships 1981-82 (85 ed.). London: Jane's. p. 579. ISBN 0-7106-0728-8.
2. McEwen, Andrew (26 November 1988). "Guatemalans fire at British ship". The Times. No. 63249. p. 8. ISSN 0140-0460.