Rfa Reliant (A131) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! RFA Reliant (A131) was a helicopter support ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was built in 1977 in Poland, at the Gda sk Shipyard, as a conventional container ship. She was taken up from the trade in 1982 for service in the Falklands War, and was fitted with the Arapaho containerized aircraft handling system, a hangar and a flight deck. After the war, she commissioned into the RFA. Her first operational sortie was to the coast of Lebanon in support of the British Army in Beirut, eventually evacuating the same in February 1984.