Decommissioned 7 May 1976 Length 148 m | Displacement 13,737 tons full load Draft 8 m | |
Launched 9 September 1953 as Somersby. Commissioned 11 August 1957 as RFA Somersby. Renamed 23 September 1958 as RFA Reliant. Fate Demolished on 23 August 1977. | ||
RFA Reliant (A84) was an air stores support ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was formerly the commercial general cargo vessel Somersby which was purchased in 1956 and renamed on completion of her conversion in 1958. She was fitted for replenishing aircraft carriers at sea with a wide range of air, naval and victualling stores. As refitted she had a helicopter landing pad built over the poop deckhouse.
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