RFA Wave Ruler is sched­uled to make a re­gion­al en­gage­ment vis­it to Port-of-Spain from Thurs­day to East­er Mon­day.The ship's last port vis­it was Cas­tries, St Lu­cia, where around one third of the ship's com­pa­ny changed over.RFA Wave Ruler has pre­vi­ous­ly been sta­tioned in the Far East, Per­sian Gulf and as APT(S) (At­lantic Pa­trol Tanker South) in the South At­lantic, sup­port­ing the Falk­land Is­lands as well as work­ing in ter­ri­to­r­i­al wa­ters around the UK.A sig­nif­i­cant part of the Roy­al Navy's pres­ence is pa­trolling the North At­lantic and Caribbean.RFA Wave Ruler's pri­ma­ry role is to pro­vide sup­port to the UK over­seas ter­ri­to­ries and strength­en the UK Gov­ern­ment's com­mit­ment in the re­gion.This role in­cludes pro­vid­ing re­gion­al sup­port in the event of nat­ur­al dis­as­ters, such as hur­ri­canes.

With an ex­ten­sive range of dis­as­ter re­lief stores Wave Ruler is ca­pa­ble of pro­vid­ing food, wa­ter and shel­ter where re­quired.The ship is en­hanced with a naval par­ty and he­li­copter dur­ing the core hur­ri­cane sea­son.Ad­di­tion­al­ly, the ship and her crew can pro­vide med­ical and hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid, to­geth­er with tech­ni­cal as­sis­tance util­is­ing their train­ing, skills, knowl­edge and ex­pe­ri­ence.While at sea work­ing in sup­port of lo­cal de­fence and po­lice forces, from a host of Caribbean na­tions, to­geth­er with Unit­ed States Coast Guard, RFA Wave Ruler con­ducts mar­itime pa­trols, par­tic­u­lar­ly aimed at coun­ter­ing drug traf­fick­ing in the Caribbean re­gion.

Cap­tain Jones was quot­ed as say­ing: "We are de­light­ed to be in Trinidad. Our vis­it con­firms the UK's close re­la­tion­ship with Trinidad."Wave Ruler is in the re­gion to sup­port UK over­seas ter­ri­to­ries, pro­vide re­gion­al sup­port in the event of nat­ur­al dis­as­ters and sup­port mul­ti-na­tion­al counter-nar­cot­ic op­er­a­tions."The ship's com­pa­ny are look­ing for­ward to the vis­it and the op­por­tu­ni­ty to ex­pe­ri­ence Trinidad."