RFA Fort Victoria bombing

RFA Fort Victoria bombing
Part of The Troubles
RFA Fort Victoria
Location	Harland and Wolff shipyard, Port of Belfast
Coordinates	54°37′07.38″N 5°53′42.24″W / 54.6187167°N 5.8950667°W / 54.6187167; -5.8950667
Date	6 September 1990
Target	RFA Fort Victoria (A387)
Weapons	2 explosive charges
Deaths	None
Injured	None
Perpetrator	Provisional Irish Republican Army

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 and 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. The second device didn't explode and was defused several days later. The attack resulted in a two-year delay before Fort Victoria became fully operational.