About: RFA Diligence (A132)

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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. She gave assistance to the damaged USS Tripoli and Princeton in the 1991 Gulf War, and to Sri Lanka after the 2005 tsunami. She typically had deployments of 5-8 years in support of the Trafalgar-class submarine on duty east of Suez, with a secondary role as a mothership for British and US minesweepers in the Persian Gulf. Until 2016 Diligence was set to go out of service in 2020. However in August 2016, the UK Ministry of Defence placed an advert for the sale of RFA Diligence. As of 2016 the option for

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  • RFA Diligence (A132) byla víceúčelová opravárenská loď pomocných sil britského královského námořnictva. Sloužila k opravám a zásobování válečných lodí a raketonosných ponorek operujících daleko od domácích základen. Plavidlo mělo být ve službě do roku 2020, nakonec ale bylo rozhodnuto vyřadit jej z úsporných důvodů již roku 2016. Vyřazena byla 4. srpna 2016. (cs)
  • 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. She gave assistance to the damaged USS Tripoli and Princeton in the 1991 Gulf War, and to Sri Lanka after the 2005 tsunami. She typically had deployments of 5-8 years in support of the Trafalgar-class submarine on duty east of Suez, with a secondary role as a mothership for British and US minesweepers in the Persian Gulf. Until 2016 Diligence was set to go out of service in 2020. However in August 2016, the UK Ministry of Defence placed an advert for the sale of RFA Diligence. As of 2016 the option for the delivery of future operational maintenance and repair capability for the RFA remained under consideration. However, the 2021 British defence white paper made no specific mention of the need for this capability. (en)
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  • 1984-03-12 (xsd:date)
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  • 20.500000 (xsd:double)
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  • Awaiting Disposal
  • Laid up in June 2016
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dbp:shipAcquired
  • October 1983 (en)
dbp:shipAircraftFacilities
  • Helicopter deck up to CH-47 Chinook size (en)
dbp:shipArmament
  • *2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon *4 × 7.62 mm machine guns *4 × Mk44 miniguns (en)
dbp:shipBuilder
  • Öresundsvarvet AB, Landskrona, Sweden (en)
dbp:shipCommissioned
  • 1984-03-12 (xsd:date)
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  • 54 (xsd:integer)
dbp:shipCountry
  • United Kingdom (en)
dbp:shipDecommissioned
  • June 2016 (en)
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  • Laid up in June 2016 (en)
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  • * * *Callsign: GCPC *Pennant number: A132 (en)
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  • January 1981 (en)
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  • RFA Diligence (en)
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  • Floating Swiss Army Knife (en)
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  • * Diesel-electric drive * 5 × NOHAB-Polar diesel generators * 4 × NEBB motors * 1 × propeller * 2 × 360-degree azimuth thrusters * 2 × Kamewa bow thrusters (en)
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  • *Kelvin Hughes Ltd SharpEye navigation radar (en)
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  • Awaiting Disposal (en)
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  • up to 55 personnel (en)
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  • RFA Diligence (A132) byla víceúčelová opravárenská loď pomocných sil britského královského námořnictva. Sloužila k opravám a zásobování válečných lodí a raketonosných ponorek operujících daleko od domácích základen. Plavidlo mělo být ve službě do roku 2020, nakonec ale bylo rozhodnuto vyřadit jej z úsporných důvodů již roku 2016. Vyřazena byla 4. srpna 2016. (cs)
  • 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. She gave assistance to the damaged USS Tripoli and Princeton in the 1991 Gulf War, and to Sri Lanka after the 2005 tsunami. She typically had deployments of 5-8 years in support of the Trafalgar-class submarine on duty east of Suez, with a secondary role as a mothership for British and US minesweepers in the Persian Gulf. Until 2016 Diligence was set to go out of service in 2020. However in August 2016, the UK Ministry of Defence placed an advert for the sale of RFA Diligence. As of 2016 the option for (en)
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  • RFA Diligence (A132) (cs)
  • RFA Diligence (A132) (en)
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  • RFA Diligence (en)
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  • Floating Swiss Army Knife (en)
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