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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.
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)
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.
[43] [44] As an international deployment, the JEF(M) gets the chance to engage in "intense" exercises with foreign and allied navies, such as (for example) the Royal Navy of Oman. [45] The 2021 JEF (M) is centred on the Type 23's HMS Lancaster and HMS Westminster supported by RFA Tiderace (A137) where they are operating in the Baltic. HMS ...
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 Proteus is a ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary within His Majesty's Naval Service of the United Kingdom. Its roles being a platform for Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicles (ROUVs) [ 9 ] and a testbed for new specialist capabilities, required for monitoring waters important to UK interests. [ 3 ]
RFA Lyme Bay is a Bay-class auxiliary dock landing ship (LSD(A)) of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). Ordered from Swan Hunter in 2000, the ship was launched in 2005. However, cost overruns and delays saw the shipbuilder removed from the project, and the incomplete ship was towed to Govan for finishing by BAE Systems Naval Ships .