Career
Ordered:	20 January 1995
Laid down:
Launched:	October 13 1996
Commissioned:	June 30 1997
Decommissioned:
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General Characteristics
Displacement:	13,500 tons full load
Length:	131.1 m
Beam:	21.5 m
Draught:	8.3 m
Propulsion:	Krupp MaK 9M32 9-Cylinder Diesels
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h)
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Complement:	63
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Motto:

HMS Scott (H131) is an ocean-going survey vessel of the Royal Navy. Not only is she the largest vessel in the Fleet's Hydrographic Squadron, and the seventh largest in the entire fleet, but she is also the largest survey vessel in Western Europe. She was ordered in 1995 to replace the ageing HMS Hecla; she was built at the Appledore Shipyard in North Devon and commissioned on 20th June 1997. Although Scott is now the Royal Navy's sole ocean going survey vessel, she is capable of maintaining up 300 days a year at sea, thanks to her novel crew rotation system - her complement of 63 is divided into three sections, two of which are required to keep the ship operational, with the third on shore on either leave or in training. When the ship returns to port, one crew section on board is replaced by the section on shore. The ship can then deploy again almost immediately. As with all of the Royal Navy's large survey vessels, Scott has an auxiliary role in support of minesweepers and minehunters .