AO · Support Ship
| IMO: | 7814448 |
| MMSI: | 234084000 |
| Flight Deck: | DL |
| Call Sign: | GCPC |
| Shipyard: | Oresundsvarvet AB |
Timeline
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Jan 28, 1980 | |
| Apr 3, 1980 | as ms Stena Inspector |
| Apr 1982 | into RFA on charter from Stena Caribbean Line, London |
| Oct 1983 | purchased by MoD for RFA from Stena |
| Nov 12, 1983 | rapid refit for RFA at Clyde Dock Engineering over 2 months to include additions to diving support facilities, accommodation, repair workshops, heavy duty cranes and equipment to allow alongside working with other ships, plus communications and storage space upgrades, until 29 Feb 1984. Govan |
| Mar 12, 1984 | Re-commissioned as fully owned RFA vessel |
| Feb 1, 1987 | Cammell Laird arrived on Merseyside for refit, until mid May |
| Sep 7, 1987 |  Port Mombasa departed Mombasa to become Arabian Gulf forward deployed support vessel, until 4 Mar 1989 |
| Sep 1988 | Strait of Hormuz (SN) assisted HMS Southampton after collision with a merchant vessel in Strait of Hormuz |
| Sep 1990 |  Jebil Ali assigned to Jebil Ali as base repair ship during Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, until Apr 1991. |
| Apr 1991 | departed for South Atlantic for maintenance support. Arrived on station during May and departed for UK during Nov 1992. |
| May 1993 | departed for South Atlantic for maintenance support. Arrived on station during Jun. |
| Jun 1993 | operating in the S Atlantic and around the Falkland Islands for 11 month deployment |
| Nov 1994 | operating in the S Atlantic and around the Falkland Islands for 6 month deployment, until 28 Apr 1995. |
| Aug 18, 1996 | operating in the S Atlantic and around the Falkland Islands for 3 month deployment |
| Jan 1997 | departed UK in support of Far East deployment, returned end of Aug. Ocean Wave 97 deployment |
| Jan 30, 2003 | to support combat, post-combat and reconstruction operations in Iraq, completing 11 Aug 2003. Operation Telic |
| Nov 2003 | until May 2004, refit in Singapore |
| Dec 2004 | ordered to east coast of Sri Lanka, with HMS Chatham, to assist in humanitarian operations following the tsunami, triggered by the Banda Aceh (Indonesia) earthquake of 26 Dec 2004. |
| Apr 2006 | maintenance period at Simonstown, South Africa |
| Oct 11, 2006 |  Freetown Port in support of Exercise Green Eagle phase of Operation Vela, off Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Operation Vela (Green Eagle) |
| Feb 2007 | at Northwestern Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders Ltd (NSSL) in Birkenhead for Major Life Extension work. |
| Jul 8, 2013 | departed HMNB Portsmouth for East of Suez support deployment, for in excess of 5 years. |
| Sep 2013 | already stationed east of Suez, RFA Diligence will provide engineering support to the participants in Ex Cougar 13, remaining in the area once it completes. Returned to UK in Nov 2014 Cougar 13 |
| Aug 2014 | UK Govt announced RFA Diligence would be sold |
| Nov 2014 | at Birkenhead by Northwestern Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders Limited |
| 2016 | decommissioned |
| Mar 13, 2024 |  Aliaga towed from Portsmouth for scrapping in Turkey Shipbreakers |