RFA Resource (A480)

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Launched: 11th February 1966
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Fate: Sold commercially
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Aircraft: 1 x Wessex 5 helicopter with a landing platform capable of landing several different classes of helicopter.
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RFA Resource (A480) was an armament stores ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

The RFA Resource served in the Falklands war. The ship was captained at that time by the late Captain Bruce Seymour.

The RFA Resource was one of the first vessels on the scene to pick up survivors from the HMS Sheffield (having just supplied her).

The Ship's badge of RFA Resource

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[edit] External Links

Guardian Article mentioning RFA Resource - http://www.guardian.co.uk/falklands/story/0,,657867,00.html

Images of RFA Resource and a Wessex Helicopter - http://www.john.fotoblog.org.uk/p14552235.html

Images and information about RFA Resource and sister ship Regent - http://www.btinternet.com/~warship/Feature/rfa/pics2.htm

Hansard entry mentioning final fate of RFA Resource - http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030227/text/30227w04.htm

Falklands day by day from Royal Navy - http://www.navynews.co.uk/falklands/day_april.asp