RFA Reliant

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Three ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Reliant:

RFA Reliant (1933) was a stores carrier, formerly the civilian London Importer. She was acquired in 1933 and sold in 1948.
RFA Reliant (A84) was an air stores support ship, formerly the civilian Somersby. She was acquired in 1957 and scrapped in 1977.
RFA Reliant (A131) was a helicopter support ship, formerly the civilian Astronomer. She was acquired in 1983 and sold in 1986.

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The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is a naval auxiliary fleet owned by the UK's Ministry of Defence. It provides vital logistical and operational support to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. The RFA ensures the Royal Navy is supplied and supported by providing fuel and stores through replenishment at sea, transporting Royal Marines and British Army personnel, providing medical care and transporting equipment and essentials across the world. In addition the RFA acts independently providing humanitarian aid, counter piracy and counter narcotic patrols together with assisting the Royal Navy in preventing conflict and securing international trade. They are a uniformed civilian branch of the Royal Navy staffed by British merchant sailors.

RFA Oakleaf (A111) was a Leaf-class fleet support tanker, formerly of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, and the second ship to bear the name.

Three ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Brambleleaf:

Three ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Bayleaf:

Three ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Orangeleaf:

Two ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Fort Rosalie:

RFA Reliant (A131) was a helicopter support ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was built in 1977 in Poland, at the Gdańsk Shipyard, as a conventional container ship with roll-on/roll-off capability for loading vehicles and containers for the Harrison Line. She was named Astronomer. She was taken up from the trade in 1982 for service in the Falklands War as an aircraft transport, being fitted with a temporary mid-ships flight deck and hangar forward to carry 13 helicopters.

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.

Two ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Olwen:

Three ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Bacchus, after Bacchus, the god of wine in Roman mythology:

Two ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Derwentdale:

Two ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Oakol:

HMAS Westralia was a modified Leaf-class replenishment oiler which served with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1989 to 2006. Formerly RFA Appleleaf (A79), she served in with the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) from 1975 to 1989. The ship was initially leased to the RAN, then purchased outright in 1994. In 1998, a fire onboard resulted in the deaths of four sailors. Westralia was decommissioned in 2006, and the ship was sold into civilian service for use as a Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel, under the name Shiraz. However, the ship was laid up in Indonesia until late 2009, when she was sold to a Turkish ship breaking company. Arriving in January 2010, the vessel was scrapped.

The Royal Naval Supply and Transport Service, or RNSTS, was the civilian manned logistics service that supported the British Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA); being part of the MOD (Navy). It was formed in 1965 and was abolished in 1994, its role being taken over by the Naval Bases and Supply Agency.

Four Australian naval vessels have been named HMAS Paluma after an Aboriginal word meaning "thunder":

Three ships of the United States Navy have been named Sirius, after Sirius , the brightest star visible from Earth other than the Sun.

A number of ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Diligence.

Two ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Dewdale:

Two ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Ennerdale:

Two ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Turmoil:

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