RFA Diligence
repair ship
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- RFA Diligence
- IMO number
- 7814448
- MMSI
- —
- Call sign
- —
- Flag
- —
- Vessel type
- repair ship
- Gross tonnage
- —
- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- —
- Beam
- —
- Year built
- 1981
- Builder
- Öresund shipyard
- Registered owner
- —
- Operator
- Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About RFA Diligence
RFA Diligence was a forward repair ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Launched in 1981 as a support ship for North Sea oil rigs, she was chartered by the British government to support naval activities during the 1982 Falklands War and was later bought outright as a fleet maintenance vessel. She gave assistance to the damaged USS Tripoli and Princeton in the 1991 Gulf War, and to Sri Lanka after the 2005 tsunami. She typically had deployments of 5-8 years in support of the Trafalgar-class submarine on duty east of Suez, with a secondary role as a mothership for British and US minesweepers in the Persian Gulf. Until 2016 Diligence was set to go out of service in 2020. However in August 2016, the UK Ministry of Defence placed an advert for the sale of RFA Diligence.
Summary from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.
Frequently asked questions
- Where is RFA Diligence now?
- RFA Diligence has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is RFA Diligence?
- RFA Diligence is a repair ship, built in 1981 by Öresund shipyard.
- Who owns RFA Diligence?
- RFA Diligence is operated by Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Ownership data is compiled from public registries and shown free on Seadar.
- Has RFA Diligence been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for RFA Diligence appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).