The Ramped Powered Lighter (RPL) was a type of landing craft

Landing craft

Landing craft are boats and seagoing vessels used to convey a landing force from the sea to the shore during an amphibious assault. Most renowned are those used to storm the beaches of Normandy, the Mediterranean, and many Pacific islands during WWII...

 formerly operated by the Royal Corps of Transport

Royal Corps of Transport

The Royal Corps of Transport was a British Army Corps formed in 1965 from the transport elements of the Royal Army Service Corps and the movement control element of the Royal Engineers . The depot was Buller Barracks in Aldershot...

 of the British Army

British Army

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, from the 1960s until the 1990s. It had a vehicle deck that was 5.49 metre wide and 13.26 metre long, and a load capacity of 30.5 tonnes (30.0 long tons). From the early 1980s onwards it was replaced with the larger RCL (Ramped Craft Logistic

Ramped Craft Logistic

The Ramped Craft Logistic is a type of landing craft operated by the Royal Logistic Corps of the British Army. From the early 1980s onwards it was deployed to replace the RPL . One of its first roles was to provide logistical support during the setting up of the garrison in the Falkland Islands...

). The last RPL was in service in Belize

Belize

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 until the main British Armed Forces

British Armed Forces

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presence was withdrawn from there in 1994.