Royal Fleet Auxiliary RFA Gold Rover Small Replenishment Tanker

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RFA Gold Rover was a small fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and one of five Rover-class ships that were designed by the Admiralty, all of which were built at the Swan Hunter shipyard.
Gold Rover and her sister Black Rover were the last two in service with the RFA on duty around the world. The class were phased out as part of a worldwide effort to replace single-hulled tankers with more environmentally safe double-hulled vessels. Gold Rover herself was decommissioned in a sunset ceremony at Portsmouth Naval Base on 6 March 2017

Complement
16 officers
31 ratings
Crew 60
Sensors and
processing systems Sperry Marine Visionmaster radars and ECDIS. 1690 I band navigation radars
Electronic warfare
& decoys
2 Corvus and 2 Plessey Shield decoy launchers
Graseby Type 182 towed torpedo decoy
Armament
2 Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
2 7.62 mm machine guns
Aircraft carried Helicopter deck but no hangar