RFA Resource
1967 Armament stores ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For Royal Navy and RFA ships named Resource, see HMS Resource.
RFA Resource was an armament stores ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
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RFA Resource (A480) cruises next to HMS Eagle, during "Operation Peacekeeper" on 24 September 1969. | |
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Name | RFA Resource |
Ordered | 24 January 1963 |
Laid down | 19 June 1964 |
Launched | 11 February 1966 |
Commissioned | 6 June 1967 |
Decommissioned | 1 May 1997 |
Renamed | Resourceful in 1997 |
Stricken | 1997 |
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Honours and awards | Falkland Islands 1982. Kuwait 1991. |
Fate | Scrapped at Alang in 1997 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Regent-class armament stores ship |
Displacement | 22,890 tons full load |
Length | 640 ft 1 in (195.10 m) |
Beam | 77 ft 1.25 in (23.50 m) |
Draught | 26 ft 3 in (8.00 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Complement |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Wessex 5 helicopter |
Aviation facilities | Landing platform capable of landing several different classes of helicopter |
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