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Fleet Solid Support Ship
A fleet solid support ship is a List of ship types, type of Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) ship designed to supply solids (otherwise known as dry stores), such as ammunition, explosives and food, to Royal Navy ships at sea. The term can also refer to the programme to replace the RFA's existing solid support ships, the Fleet Solid Support Ship Programme. Current ships The Royal Fleet Auxiliary currently operates one solid support ship of the , . As of 2021, the former s ( and ) have been retired and only ''Fort Victoria'' has undergone refit to enable her to supply the Royal Navy's new s with solid stores. With incompatible rigs, ''Fort Rosalie'' and ''Fort Austin'' were placed in extended readiness and were later sold to Egypt. A programme to replace these ships, named the Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability (MARS) Fleet Solid Support (FSS), commenced in 2017, but was delayed in 2019. In May 2021, the competition was restarted with the aim of selecting a design within two year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ship Types
This is a list of historical ship types, which includes any classification of ship that has ever been used, excluding smaller vessels considered to be boats. The classifications are not all mutually exclusive; a vessel may be both a full-rigged ship by description, and a collier or frigate by function. ;Aircraft Carrier: Naval vessel able to launch and retrieve airplanes ;Amphibious warfare ship: vessels of various sizes for landing personnel and vehicles ;Aviso: (Spanish or French) Originally a dispatch boat, later applied to ships equivalent to the Royal Navy sloop of war, sloop ;Barque: A sailing vessel with three or more masts, fore-and-aft rigged on only the aftermost ;Barquentine: A sailing vessel with three or more masts, square-rigged only on the foremast ;Battlecruiser: A heavily-armed cruiser similar to a battleship but possessing less armor ;Battleship: A large, heavily armored and heavily gunned powered warship ;Bilander: A ship or brig with a lug sail, lug-rigged mizz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
