RFA Reliant (A131) was a helicopter support ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was built in 1977 in Poland, at the Gdańsk Shipyard, as a conventional container ship with roll-on/roll-off capability for loading vehicles and containers for the Harrison Line. She was named Astronomer. She was taken up from the trade in 1982 for service in the Falklands War as an aircraft transport, being fitted with a temporary mid-ships flight deck and hangar forward to carry 13 helicopters.
Attributes | Values |
---|
rdf:type
| |
rdfs:label
| |
rdfs:comment
| - RFA Reliant (A131) was a helicopter support ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was built in 1977 in Poland, at the Gdańsk Shipyard, as a conventional container ship with roll-on/roll-off capability for loading vehicles and containers for the Harrison Line. She was named Astronomer. She was taken up from the trade in 1982 for service in the Falklands War as an aircraft transport, being fitted with a temporary mid-ships flight deck and hangar forward to carry 13 helicopters. (en)
|
foaf:name
| |
foaf:depiction
| |
dcterms:subject
| |
Wikipage page ID
| |
Wikipage revision ID
| |
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
| |
sameAs
| |
Ship decommissioned
| |
Ship renamed
| - * Admiralty Island
*April 1989 as Wealthy River (en)
|
Ship speed
| |
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
| |
thumbnail
| |
Ship commissioned
| |
Ship armament
| |
Ship builder
| |
Ship complement
| |
Ship completed
| |
Ship country
| |
Ship displacement
| |
Ship fate
| |
Ship flag
| |
Ship identification
| |
Ship launched
| |
Ship name
| |
Ship propulsion
| |
Ship aircraft
| - Up to five Westland Sea King (en)
|
Ship struck
| |
has abstract
| - RFA Reliant (A131) was a helicopter support ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was built in 1977 in Poland, at the Gdańsk Shipyard, as a conventional container ship with roll-on/roll-off capability for loading vehicles and containers for the Harrison Line. She was named Astronomer. She was taken up from the trade in 1982 for service in the Falklands War as an aircraft transport, being fitted with a temporary mid-ships flight deck and hangar forward to carry 13 helicopters. At the end of 1982 she was chartered by the UK MoD and a more substantial conversion was undertaken, and was fitted with the , a hangar and a flight deck and she was commissioned into the RFA Fleet as RFA Reliant. Her first operational sortie was to the coast of Lebanon in support of the Multinational Force in Lebanon and the British Army units based in Beirut, eventually evacuating the same in February 1984. Upon returning to UK she proceeded to the Falklands for what was expected to be an extended deployment. However, it did not last long as the Arapaho system proved to be unsatisfactory for handling aircraft. She was decommissioned in 1986 and sold back into conventional merchant service. (en)
|
gold:hypernym
| |
prov:wasDerivedFrom
| |
length (mm)
| |
page length (characters) of wiki page
| |
completion date
| |
length (μ)
| |
ship beam (μ)
| |
ship launched
| |
status
| - *Sold back into merchant service on 27 October 1986
- *Arrived atAlangfor demolition on 9 July 1998
|
commissioning date
| |
decommissioning date
| |
builder
| |
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
| |
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
of | |
is Wikipage redirect
of | |
is foaf:primaryTopic
of | |