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RFA Fort George (A388)

RFA Fort George
CareerRFA Ensign
Ordered:18 December 1987
Laid down:9 March 1989
Launched:1 March 1991
Commissioned:16 July 1993
Decommissioned:
Fate:
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:32,300 tonnes
Length:203.9 m
Beam:30.3 m
Draught:9.7 m
Propulsion:
Speed:22 knots
Range:
Complement:95 RFA
15 RN
24 RNSTS
154 RN Air Squadron personnel
Armament:2 Phalanx CIWS
4 BMARC 30 mm guns
Aircraft:
Motto:

RFA Fort George (A388) is a combined fleet stores ship and tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

Fort George was ordered from Swan Hunter in late 1987. The ship was laid down in 1989, launched by the wife of the Commander-in-Chief Fleet Admiral Sir Jock Slater in 1991 and commissioned in 1993. As with Fort Rosalie, the ship received the Phalanx CIWS in a refit, in 1999.

In early 2000, the ship was diverted to Mozambique to help with relief efforts against devastating floods. Africa continued to loom large for much of the rest of the year, as the Fort George accompanied HMS Illustrious to the coast of Sierra Leone to support British operations to restore stability to that country. Late in the year, during a deployment in the Mediterranean, the ship helped passengers of the Greek ferry Express Samina which had run aground during a storm.

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