The Police in the USA reported in July 1954 that seven Chinese members of the crew of RFA Surf Pioneer had jumped ship while she was berthed at Baton Rouge, Louisiana loading oil.   (more…)

  In early 1940 the Dutch ship builders Rotterdam Dry Dock Company at Rotterdam were building a 10,746 ton tanker to be named Papendrecht for her owners Van Ommeren’s Scheeps. (Yard No 220). The ship was launched on 17 April…

Bombed but not out   Convoy WP 169 left Milford Haven on the 9th June 1942, amongst the ships on this small coastal convoy was RFA Ennerdale bound for Portsmouth where the convoy was due on the 11th June. Image…

In 2004 during an exhibition in Sydney, Australia the famous British company Rolls Royce unveiled a series of four Naval ship concept designs based on a fast monohull that would, if one particular design had been adopted, given the RFA…

Australian yachtswoman Anne Lise Guy set sail from Mooloolaba, Queensland in November 1993 aboard her 11 metre yacht “Wildflower” to circumnavigate the Antarctic continent, and for three months everything was fine as she slowly tacked east toward South America.  …

  Throughout the RFA’s history, the fleet has been given some odd and unusual tasks to perform, some odder than others.  In 1947, with the Second World War not long over, the RFA were seriously considered for the operation as…