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RFA Argus (A135) RFA. Argus. (A135) RFA Argus off the coast of Devonport in 2007. Requisitioned by Ministry of Defence, May 1982. Returned to owner, November 1982. Argus enters Portsmouth Naval Base on 9 July 2010 with the crew lining the decks. RFA Argus is a ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary operated by the Ministry of Defence under the Blue ...
The oil rig support ship MV Stena Inspector was purchased in 1983, and became RFA Diligence, while Astronomer and Contender Bezant were retained as RFA Reliant and Argus respectively. The value of STUFT was recognised, and over the next few years STUFT would see active service in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. [183]
HMS Argus (1799) was a 10-gun sloop, originally a French privateer, captured in 1799 and broken up in 1811. HMS Argus was to have been a 36-gun fifth rate. She was ordered in 1812, but cancelled that same year. HMS Argus (1813) was an 18-gun Cruizer -class brig-sloop launched in 1813 and sold in 1827. The sale was subsequently cancelled and she ...
RFA Engadine (K08) was a helicopter support ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. [1][2][3] The need for Engadine was seen in the mid-1960s as more and more helicopters were deployed from Royal Navy aircraft carriers and surface combatants. The ship was ordered in August 1964, from Henry Robb of Leith, and commissioned in December 1967, replacing ...
RFA. Orangeleaf. (A110) RFA Orangeleaf was a Leaf-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary [2] (RFA), the naval auxiliary fleet of the United Kingdom, and which served with the fleet for over 30 years, tasked with providing fuel, food, fresh water, ammunition and other supplies to Royal Navy and allied naval vessels around the ...
RFA Diligence was a forward repair ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Launched in 1981 as a support ship for North Sea oil rigs, she was chartered by the British government to support naval activities during the 1982 Falklands War and was later bought outright as a fleet maintenance vessel. [1] She gave assistance to the damaged USS Tripoli and ...
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RFA Sir Lancelot (L3029) was the lead ship and prototype of the Round Table class landing ship logistics, an amphibious warfare design operated by the British Armed Forces. Sir Lancelot sailed with the British Task Force that took part in the Falklands War. Whilst in San Carlos Water, an Argentine plane dropped a bomb that penetrated her hull ...