page_title: HMS Fearless (L10)
section_title: Decommissioned
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Fearless (L10) / Service / Decommissioned
caption_attribution_description: The HMS Fearless (L 10), a British Royal Navy amphibious assault ship, enters a harbour at a forward deployed location. The Fearless was operating in the Indian Ocean as part of the forces supporting "Operation Enduring Freedom".
context_page_description: HMS Fearless (L10) was a Royal Navy amphibious assault ship that served from 1965 until 2002. One of two Fearless-class landing platform docks, she was based in HMNB Portsmouth and saw service around the world over her 37-year life. She was the last steam-powered surface ship in the Royal Navy.
context_section_description: Fearless was decommissioned in 2002 and awaited disposal in Fareham Creek, Hampshire, moored alongside her sister ship Intrepid. In October 2007, it was reported that Fearless was to be scrapped in Belgium,
  five years after the vessel was officially mothballed in Portsmouth. On 17 December 2007, Fearless was towed to Ghent in Belgium to be broken. This was the first warship successfully exported for recycling by any western government that fully complied with international agreements and the principles concerning environmentally sound management of waste.
  
  Replacement LPDs Albion and Bulwark were ordered during the 1990s. They were commissioned in 2003.
caption: HMS Fearless in the Indian Ocean, 16 November 2001.
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