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 | | Purchased: | October 1983 | | Laid down: | | | Launched: | 1981 | | Commissioned: | 12 March 1984 | | Decommissioned: | | | Fate: | Active in service as of 2006. | | Struck: | | | General characteristics | | Displacement: | 10,765 tonnes | | Length: | 112 m | | Beam: | 20.5 m | | Draught: | 6.8 m | | Propulsion: | Diesel-electric drive; five Nohab-Polar diesel generators; four NEBB motors; one propeller; two 360 degrees azimuth thrusters; two bow thrusters | | Speed: | 10 knots | | Range: | | | Complement: | 38
additional 147 RN personnel | | Armament: | | | Aircraft: | Landing spot for a Westland Sea King, Westland Lynx or CH-47 Chinook helicopter | | Motto: | | RFA Diligence (A132) is a fleet repair ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was built by Oesundsvarvet AB Landskrona in Sweeden and launched in 1981 as a civilian oil rig support ship,. Diligence first served the RFA during the Falklands War as a civilian owned ship taken up from the trade (STUFT). As MV Stena Inspector, the ship repaired many British vessels. Stena Inspector was purchased by the Government in 1983 for £25 million pounds from Stena (UK) Line and renamed Diligence. She was sailed to the Clyde Dock Engineering facility, where she was converted and military features added, including a large workshop for hull and machinery repairs, supply facilities, accommodation, armaments and magazines and communications fits. Download high resolution version (1074x748, 109 KB)From http://www. ...
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The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is the service that keeps the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom running around the world. ...
Combatants United Kingdom Argentina Casualties 258 killed [5] 777 wounded 59 taken prisoner 649 killed 1,068 wounded 11,313 taken prisoner The Falklands War (Spanish: ) was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. ...
STUFT is a nautical acronym for Ship Taken Up From Trade, and applies to civilian ships requisitioned for government use. ...
She is designed to provide forward repair and maintenance facilities to ships and submarines operating away from their home ports, so in addition to a variety of workshops she can also provide, fuel, water and sullage reception. RFA Diligence provides a large workshop facility for Royal Navy vessels, this is equipped with specialist machinery such as Arc welding equipment, lathes, pillar drills, grinders, band saws and a large store of spares. Manual Metal Arc welding, also known as stick or MMA welding is one of the most common forms of welding. ...
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Diligence is the Royal Navy's primary battle damage repair unit, and is on short notice to react to developing situations worldwide. One of the key features of the ship's design is her computer-assisted dynamic positioning system which can keep the vessel static in poor conditions, using the ship's range of thrusters and the variable-pitch propeller.
She is fitted with a decompression chamber and has a helicopter deck on the roof of her bridge that is large enough to support a CH47 Chinook. A decompression chamber is a pressure vessel used in surface supplied diving to allow the divers to complete their decompression stops at the end of a dive on the surface rather than underwater. ...
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Another great advantage of the ship is her hull is built to the highest ice class specification, so she can operate anywhere the Navy does.
Diligence has provided damage repair work many times during its lifetime. At the end of the Iran-Iraq War, the Straits of Hormuz were mined, and Diligence supported the multinational minesweeping operation to clear that vital chokepoint. Diligence also helped to repair HMS Southampton after collision damage. The ship returned to the Gulf in 1990 to support operations during the Gulf War by repairing, among others, American ships damaged by mines. Combatants Iran Iraq Commanders Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Abolhassan Banisadr Ali Shamkhani Mostafa Chamran†Saddam Hussein Ali Hassan al-Majid Strength 305,000 soldiers 500,000 Passdaran and Baseej militia 1,000 tanks 1,000 armored vehicles 3,000 artillery pieces 65 aircraft 720 helicopters[1] 190,000 soldiers 4,500...
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During Operation Ocean Wave 97, Diligence deployed to the Far East as a submarine support ship. The following year, the ship supported 3rd Minecounter Measures Squadron in the Persian Gulf. Following just two weeks in the UK, Diligence departed for the south Atlantic, returning to Faslane in December 1998. Early 1999 saw the ship again deployed to the Falklands region. Faslane Naval Base, officially HMS Neptune, is a Royal Navy base situated on Gare Loch, which connects to the River Clyde in Scotland. ...
2001 saw a large exercise in Oman, and Diligence supported the four MCMVs involved. The ship's next wartime assignment came with the large taskforce deployed against Iraq in 2003. Returning to familiar territory, Diligence supported the largest British fleet deployed since the Falklands War. A Mine Countermeasure Vessel or MCMV is a type of naval ship tasked with the location of and destruction of naval mines. ...
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Most recently she could be found off Sierra Leone with the Vela task force. Vela is a constellation. ...
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When the ship returned to UK in November 2006 she had the longest deployment of an RFA in recent times. From her departure from Portsmouth it was 5 and half years before she returned home to Portsmouth. In that time she has visited 25 different countries whilst steaming some 150,000 miles, through the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf, across the Indian Ocean to India, Sri Lanka and Singapore, the South China Sea to the Phillipines and from South Africa across the Atlantic to the Falklands and South America. Many of these Oceans and countries visited 2 or 3 times. Portsmouth is a city of about 189,000 people located in the county of Hampshire on the southern coast of England. ...
All this work has taken its toll of the 25-year-old ship; her accommodation areas, galley and engine room all need an overhaul. RFA Diligence is to receive a £16m overhaul to extend her lifespan, taking her out of action for the next 12 months. Birkenhead yard Northwestern Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders won the contract to revamp the ship; the deal will sustain 100 jobs on Merseyside. This refit will see RFA Diligence equipped for service through to the middle of the next decade. A French galley and Dutch men-of-war off a port by Abraham Willaerts, painted 17th century. ...
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A new ship was meant to replace Diligence and the original in-service target date was 2006, but during 2004 this slipped to the end the decade due to lack of funding. The MOD indicated in February 2005 that it now expected to retain Diligence in service until around 2010, and that studies were underway to examine options for the future afloat support capability. but no decisions had yet been taken.
On 15 June 2005 the Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Mr Adam Ingram, said in a written answer: "It is currently planned that RFA Diligence will remain in service until 2014. Decisions have yet to be taken on how best to deliver future Operational Maintenance and Repair capability."
In October 2006, BMT revealed that it had won a study contract from the MOD in relation to OMAR options for the replacement of RFA Diligence.
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