23 September 2021
by Richard Scott
Three RFA vessels are among the many Royal Navy ships being marketed on the market, together with ex-RFA Fort Austin (pictured), which is now laid up in Birkenhead with sister ship ex-RFA
Fort Rosalie.
(NAVYPIX/Richard Scott)
Frigates, mine countermeasures (MCM) vessels, quick craft, hovercraft, and auxiliary ships are amongst tools being supplied on the market by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).
A gross sales brochure launched by the MoD's Defence Equipment Sales Authority (DESA) earlier this month revealed particulars of over 10 Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) vessels being supplied for onward sale and potential additional service. DESA is the organisation inside the MoD chargeable for managing the sale and switch of surplus British Armed Forces army tools.
Among the ships being supplied on the market are RN Sandown-class minehunters, which shall be phased out of service by the top of 2025 as a brand new technology of autonomous MCM programs start to enter service. Ex-HMS
Blyth
and ex-HMS
Ramsey,
decommissioned at Rosyth in August 2021, are already earmarked for switch to the Ukrainian Navy, following refits by Babcock.
An extra 5 vessels – HMS
Penzance
, HMS
Pembroke
, HMS
Grimsby
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