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As the network of British bases overseas shrank during the end of the Empire, the Navy increasingly relied on the RFA to supply its ships during routine deployments. The RFA played an important role [clarification needed] in the largest naval war since 1945, the Falklands War in 1982 (where one vessel was lost and another badly damaged), and ...
RFA Fort Victoria is a Fort-class combined fleet stores ship and tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the United Kingdom tasked with providing ammunition, fuel, food and other supplies to Royal Navy vessels around the world. She is now the only member of her class.
There are two types of amphibious warfare ships currently in service with the RFA as of 2024, totalling four vessels: One littoral strike ship RFA Argus (A135) and three Bay-class landing ships. The three Bay class ships are projected to be removed from service by 2032.
RFA Argus is a ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary operated by the Ministry of Defence under the Blue Ensign. Italian-built, Argus was formerly the container ship MV Contender Bezant . The ship was requisitioned in 1982 for service in the Falklands War and purchased outright in 1984 for a four-year conversion to an Aviation Training Ship ...
RFA Fort Austin is a retired British Fort Rosalie-class dry stores ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Fort Austin was laid down at Scott Lithgow in 1975, launched in 1978 and commissioned in 1979. These ships were designed to carry a wide range of dry stores to support fleet task forces; ammunition, food, explosives.
Surveillance aircraft and auxiliary vessels sent to region as Royal Marines and helicopters put on standby
RFA Mounts Bay is a Bay-class auxiliary landing ship dock (LSD(A)) of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She is named after Mount's Bay in Cornwall . As of 2024, Mounts Bay is the principal vessel assigned to the Royal Navy 's Littoral Response Group (North) .
The King Salvor-class salvage vessel was a series of twelve ocean salvage vessels operated by the RFA. [5] RFA King Salvor (A291) RFA Salviking; RFA Ocean Salvor (A492) RFA Prince Salvor (A292) RFA Salvage Duke; RFA Salvalour (A494) RFA Salventure; RFA Salvestor (A499) RFA Salvictor (A500) RFA Salvigil (A501) RFA Salviola (A502)