There were 6 ships in this Class, 4 of which were conventional commercial tankers, one slightly smaller than the other three, launched for the Shipping Controller towards the end of WW1 and placed under management of the British Tanker Co…

In September 1960 it was announced that the Admiralty was to charter 2 small single-screwed Admiralty-designed freighters from a commercial company which would be built specifically for Admiralty sea freighting duties. They were designed to carry the greater proportion of…

There were six single-screwed Admiralty-designed ships in this Class, which were all coal-fired and originally intended for full career service with the RFA. Several of them transferred to Dockyard Service later in their careers, either with the Port Auxiliary Service…

There were 2 handsome looking ships in this Class which had originally been built as cargo / passenger liners for their owner’s China – Hong Kong – Amoy – Indonesia trade and carried 48 x 1st Class passengers in luxurious…

There were six ships in this Group which were all former Port of London Authority hoppers used for working with the dredgers. As the demand for fuelling ships became more acute as WW1 progressed, these ships lent themselves to rapid…

John M Paton was a Glasgow ship owner who formed the Coasting Motor Shipping Co Ltd in 1912 in order to build and operate a fleet of small motor vessels for service in the British coastal trade, all with the…

In 1908 the then Director of Stores Sir John Forsey was rumoured to have recommended the construction of a group of oil tankers for the Admiralty account and the 5-strong BURMA GROUP was the result, with BURMA herself having the…

Ordered in 1915, the 6 Admiralty-designed ships in this Class, also known as the TEXOL CLASS. were powerful twin screw ocean tankers which were very advanced for their day. Strangely enough, all of them were built by different shipyards. They…

The Eddy class were a part of the RFA’s post World War 2 construction programme and were designed for Fleet Attendant duties in naval bases around the world.  The original plan called for ten ships in the class, but two…