RFA Gold Rover arrived at Portsmouth Harbour on 22 February 2017 to pay off for the last time after over 43 years of service in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary

A group of students from Westside School, Gibraltar visited RFA Lyme Bay on 18 December 2014. The Gibraltar Defence Police Community Liaison Officer organised the trip to give the students an insight into life on board the vessel. The students…

We have collectively all been told that the British Navy learned about underway replenishment using the abeam method with derricks and flexible hoses from the American Navy during the build up of the British Pacific fleet at the back end…

The RFA were represented by two crew members at St. Paul’s Cathedral for Baroness Thatcher’s funeral yesterday.   (Copyright unknown)   An RFA Leading Hand (third from the right) joins the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force…

  The following article was published in the Marine Engineer Officers’ Magazine Issue No 148, Vol: XX,  March – April 1938. This Magazine was the Official Journal of the Marine Engineers’ Association Ltd     RFA War Bahadur with the…

  The Master of the RFA tug Encore and four members of her crew were rewarded for the part they played in the rescue of seaman in Hong Kong during Typhoon Ruby on the 5 September 1964. RFA Encore during…

  The RFA National Memorial was dedicated on 11 October 2012 at the National Memorial Arboretum, Croxall Road, Alrewas, Staffordshire in the presence of His Royal Highness the Earl of Wessex KG, GCVO, ADC. The Earl is Commodore-in-Chief of the…

  The Ministry of Defence Operational Honours and Awards List of 28 September 2012 has announced that that Captain Shaun P Jones RFA and other officers and crew of RFA Fort Victoria have been recognized for service on Operations for…