NRP Bérrio (A5210) was a fleet support tanker of the Portuguese Navy. She was built by Swan Hunter in 1969 at Hebburn, England as RFA Blue Rover (A270) of the and from 1970 to 1993 was part of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary. In 1982 during her British service she participated in the Falklands War.
In 1993, she was sold to the Portuguese Navy who renamed her Bérrio. She participated in Operation Crocodile (Operação Crocodilo) in 1998, as part of the Portuguese naval task force that rescued foreign nationals caught up in the civil conflicts in Guinea-Bissau and then supported the mediators of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries in the peace talks between the parties in the conflict.
Design and construction
RFA Blue Rover, later NRP Bérrio, was a single-hulled tanker of the , although not big enough to support a large task group, she was ideal for supporting individual warships or small groups on deployment.
She was designed to carry a mixture of fuel oil, aviation fuel, lubricating oil and a fresh water supply; she could also carry of limited dried stores, such as munitions and refrigerated goods.
She was fitted with a flight deck large enough to accommodate two helicopters, although she had no hangar.
The keel of Blue Rover was laid at Swan Hunter's Hebburn yard on the River Tyne, England, on 30 December 1968, she was launched on 11 November 1969. A fire in a fuel tank which was under construction was the cause of death of two plumbers, Lawrence Burdis (aged 24) and John Kinkaid (aged 21), on 9 March 1970. It took thirty firefighters two hours to extinguish it. She commissioned on 15 July 1970. She was in service with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary from 1970 until 1993. She was ordered to stand off Beirut to support the County-class destroyer and the Type 22 frigate ,