Royal Fleet Auxiliary
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The Royal Fleet Auxiliary is a naval auxiliary fleet owned by the UK's Ministry of Defence. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service and provides logistical and operational support to the Roya
USS Donald Cook receives fuel during a replenishment at sea (RAS) with the former RFA Wave Ruler
Commodore Bill Walworth and Commodore Tim Fraser RN aboard RFA Lyme Bay
Tiderace (Tide class)
Fort Victoria (Fort Victoria class)
Bay-class landing ship
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The Bay class is a ship class of four dock landing ships built for the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary during the 2000s. They are based on the Dutch-Spanish Royal Schelde Enforcer design, and replaced t
Royal Fleet Auxiliary
…doctrine. From 2025 the RFA has been tasked with playing the lead role in providing amphibious shipping within the naval service, through its three Bay-class dock landing ships (LSD). Typically one Bay-class vessel has also been assigned as a permanent 'mothership' for Royal Navy mine countermeasures vessels…
RFA Mounts Bay leaving Portsmouth
Lyme Bay being fitted out at BAE's Govan shipyard in early 2007. The hull of this vessel was built by Swan Hunter on the river Tyne, but was transferred to BAE for completion in 2006.
RFA Largs Bay in Portland Harbour, August 2009
HMAS Choules at Fleet Base East in January 2012