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RFA ''Fort Rosalie'' at HMNB Plymouth Navy Days.
'''Fort Rosalie''-class'	RFA Ensign
General Characteristics
Displacement:	18,029 (gross) / 23,890 (full) tons
Length:	184 m
Beam:	24 m
Draught:	9 m
Propulsion:	1 shaft, 8-cyl. Sulzer RND90 diesel, 23,200 bhp
Speed:	22 knots
Range:	10,000 nm at 20 knots
Complement:	127 RFA / 45 RN / 36 RNSTS civilians
Armament:	★ 2 x 20 mm Oerlikon / BMARC KAA guns in GAM-B01 mounts ★ 4 x 7.62 mm GPMG
Aircraft:	up to 4 x Westland Sea King

The '''Fort Rosalie''' or 'Fort class' is a class of fleet replenishment vessel of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary. These ships are designed to replenish Royal Navy ships with all kinds of armaments and victualling stores while under way.
They have the capacity to store 3,500 tons of stores, including refrigerated items, in four holds. They are capable of replenishment at sea (RAS), using three 10-ton and three 5-ton cranes and vertical replenishment (VERTREP). For the latter role there are generous flight facilities; a single spot flight deck, an emergency landing platform atop the hangar and a complement of up to four (but usually one) Fleet Air Arm Westland Sea King helicopters and the requisite maintenance facilities. As such, they are often used for aviation training.
Two ships were ordered in 1971, with the first entering service in 1978. RFA ''Fort Rosalie'' was originally known as ''Fort Grange'', but was renamed in 2000 to avoid confusion with the new ''Fort Victoria'' class replenishment oiler RFA ''Fort George''.
Both ships saw service in the Falklands War, the then ''Fort Grange'' being shadowed by Argentine Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft while still 1,000 nm from the combat area and ''Fort Austin'' being attacked while sitting in San Carlos water.

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Ships

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See also

Ships

★ ''Fort Rosalie'' (ex-''Fort Grange'') - (A385) - built by Scott Lithgow, commissioned April 6 1978

★ ''Fort Austin'' - (A386) - built by Scott Lithgow, commissioned 11 May 1979

References

Warships of the Royal Navy, , , Captain John E. Moore RN, Jane's Publishing, 1979,
Britain's Modern Royal Navy, , Paul, Beaver, Patrick Stephens Limited, 1996,

See also

★ ''Fort Victoria'' class RFA auxiliary oiler / replenishers