RFA Sir Bedivere

RFA Sir Bedivere (L3004) was a Landing Ship Logistic of the Round Table class.

After loading at Marchwood, she left for Ascension Island where she picked up the sappers of 11 Field Squadron Royal Engineers.

In 1994, the ship was modernised in a service life extension programme to give it an extra 15 years.

Sir Bedivere left the U.K. in September 2002 for the Mediterranean and operation Argonaut in 2002.She was then diverted to the Persian Gulf accompanied by four British minesweepers.

Sir Bedivere was handed over to the Brazilian Navy on 21 May 2009, after a major refit by A&P Group at the Company's ship repair facility in Falmouth, Cornwall.

[2] As Almirante Saboia, she undertook several voyages between Port-au-Prince and Rio de Janeiro in support of Brazilian Army and Marine Corps troops in United Nations service during MINUSTAH.

[3] In 12 January 2010, she joined the task force that took part in the Brazilian Navy's ASPIRANTEX yearly training exercise, which included the frigates Niterói, Constituição and Independência, the tanker Almirante Gastão Motta, as well as the submarines Tupi and Tikuna, sailing under the command of Contra-Almirante César Sidonio Daiha Moreira de Souza.