RFA Fort Victoria bombing: RFA Fort Victoria

Quando

6 de set. de 1990

Tipo

Ataque terrorista

Coordenadas

54.62° N, 5.90° W

Posicionado em: coordinates of the event it links, RFA Fort Victoria bombing.

RFA Fort Victoria bombing: RFA Fort Victoria, launched three months earlier at Harland and Wolff's shipyard, is boarded by an IRA unit in Belfast who plant bombs on board, one of which explodes, causing considerable damage.

IRA bomb attack on RFA Fort Victoria

The bombing of RFA Fort Victoria took place on 6 September 1990, when a unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) planted two bombs aboard the Royal Fleet Auxiliary replenishment ship at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the vessel had been launched four months before. One of them exploded in the engine room, causing flooding and serious damage.

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