RFA Fort Rosalie

She carries the explosive and non-explosive stores to support a Royal Marines Landing Force from the sea and has the capacity to assist with disaster relief, i.e. hurricane support and evacuation of British nationals and entitled personnel.

The ship’s company the skills to enable them to respond to a range of emergencies: fire fighting, first aid, technical support and damage control/repair.

RFA Fort Rosalie underwent a life extending programme at Cammell Laird’s yard, Birkenhead in 2008 which upgraded many of the ship’s systems and the accommodation and was designed to extend the ship’s life for a further fifteen years.

During 2011 Fort Rosalie re-stored from refit and then completed Operational Sea Training, embarked 857 Naval Air Squadron, participated in a Joint Warrior Exercise, then deployed early on the Cougar deployment (still with 857 NAS) and was tasked to support Op Ellamy off Libya.

On completion of Op Ellamy she returned to the UK for a period of routine maintenance, reconfiguration of Operational cargo and departed just before Christmas to sail across the Atlantic to take up the role of Atlantic Patrol Tasking (North), providing the UK Government’s presence in the Caribbean, strengthening regional ties and in support of Counter Narcotics Ops.

In recognition of a most successful and busy year, Fort Rosalie has been awarded the 2011 Surface Flotilla Effectiveness Trophy, RFA Ship of the Year.

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