Rolls Royce Controllable Pitch Propellers feature customized blade designs, fully adapted to the ship’s wake. Designed to facilitate underwater blade change out, they are available for standard speeds (below 30 knots) and high speeds (above 30 knots). Designed with ultimate stealth characteristics, Their Fixed Pitch Propellers can be optimized to suppress cavitation, permitting high propulsive efficiency; vital characteristics for anti-submarine warfare. They are a major supplier to the United States Navy and Coast Guard.

Rolls Royce also manufactures Waterjets that are specialized for naval applications and can be built for special requirements such as signature and shock. The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship Freedom-variant features four of our advanced Axial Mk1 waterjets, each rated to absorb 22MW of power.

The underlying design of the Rolls-Royce Axial Mk1 waterjet has also been scaled for other research and development activities within the U.S. Navy including Sealion, the Special Operations test craft and for the X-Class USV program MUSCL.

Registrants for this tour must be US citizens and bring a picture ID to the tour. Registrants are required to have proper shoes, safety glasses, and a hard hat.