§ Mr. Colvinasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give details of the time and cost involved in converting store support ship RFA "Stromness" for use by the task force in the Falkland Islands campaign and the earlier estimates for time and cost for conversion of her sister ship RFA "Tarbatness".
§ Mr. BlakerPrior to RFA "Stromness" sailing to join the task force the total dockyard production cost of work carried out to enable her to fulfil her role was approximately £100,000, inclusive of an appropriate share of all dockyard overheads. It involved just over 100 man weeks of productive effort over the period to 6 April 1982.
RFA "Tarbathness" was not involved in the Falkland Islands campaign and was not converted. She was sold to the United States Navy on 1st March 1982 and is now known as USNS "Spica."