NRP Berrio A5210

Rover class - AO - Support Ship

Events

History of RFA Blue Rover A270

1968-jan	Ordered	Ordered
1968-dec-30	Laid down	Laid down at Swan Hunter (Hebburn) Yard - ex Hawthorne Leslie. Yard No 8.
1969-nov-11	Launched	Launched
1970-jul-15	Commissioned	Commissioned
1973-mar	Refit	Refit Completion of refit to change unreliable original 16000 shp diesel engines to Crossley-Pielstick units
1982-apr-16	Deployment	Deployment Operation Corporate Departed HMNB Portsmouth for South Atlantic as aviation fuel tanker, leaving theatre on 28 Jun 1982.
1983-nov-18	Deployment	Deployment off Lebanon Operation Offcut ordered to stand off Beirut in support of HMS Glamorgan and HMS Brazen, for assistance to British forces and civilians in Lebanon.
1993-feb	Struck	Struck removed from service
1993-mar	Fate: transfered	Fate: transfered sold to Portugal as Berrio
History of NRP Berrio A5210
1993-mar-31	Commissioned	Commissioned
1998-jun	Deployment	Deployment Porto de Bissau Evacuation from Bissau (Operation Crocodile) deployed off Guinea-Bissau to assist in evacuation of Portuguese nationals caught up in the civil war.
2005-apr-04	Deployment	Deployment Exercise NIFA 2005 exercising in the N Atlantic with French, Portuguese and Spanish warships.
2016-feb-29	Deployment	Deployment Base Naval de Lisboa Exercise Real Thaw 2016 Departed Almada Naval Base to participate in later stages of RT16.