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RFA Fort Victoria has success chasing pirates again
MV Sagar Ratan Over the past few days ten pirates in two skiffs made repeated efforts to storm the Japanese owned, Singapore flagged, 2010 built, bulk carrier MV Sagar Ratan with boarding ladders. It signalled an SOS as…
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Blasts From the Past! by Peter Maddison
During 1963, the RFA HQ in London began to appreciate that simple communication to RFA personnel afloat about current events in the RFA service was not being covered adequately in the “Naval Store Journal”. This was a two monthly glossy…
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The BARALONG Affair
The BARALONG Affair and the Admiralty Cover-Up In 1900, Bucknall Steamship Lines Ltd. embarked on a new-building programme which added a further 21 new ships to their Fleet and the first of these was launched from the Deptford…
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The ‘V’ men
On the 6 June 1944 the Allies landed on the north west coast of France, in what was the largest amphibious operation ever mounted. The planning behind this operation was truly monumental and began two years before the first soldier set…
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Mutiny on RFA Prestol
In 1918 British Naval Forces were sent to the Baltic to keep the sea lanes open to the newly independent states of Estonia, Latvia and the Free City of Danzig enabling them to secure their freedom. Danzig had been…
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RFA Diligence receives a Mayday call
RFA Diligence receives a Mayday call RFA Diligence On 16 May 2011 RFA Diligence (A132), the Service’s Forward Repair Ship received a Mayday call from the German owned, Panamanian flagged 158,000 ton MV Artemis Glory,…
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71st Anniversary of the explosion of RFA Bedenham at Gun Wharf – Gibraltar
71st Anniversary of the explosion of RFA Bedenham at Gun Wharf, Gibraltar On 27 April 1951 the naval armaments vessel RFA Bedenham, while unloading at Gun Wharf, Gibraltar was sunk when a lighter alongside of her exploded. This caused the…
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An interesting life at sea
I joined the Merchant Navy in 1943 as a 15 year old cabin boy and spent two weeks at T.S Triton, a catering training school in the West India Docks in East London. While I was there I also…
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Military Cargo
When Britain maintained overseas bases the RFA supplied a regular 12 passenger cargo shipping service to supply and maintain these outposts of the British Empire. Commercial companies – Orient/P&O had 99.99% of the traffic. (more…)
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The story of the Darkdale Part 3
Darkdale remembered Ten years after writing about the sinking of the British oil tanker Darkdale and tragic deaths of the majority of its crew in Jamestown harbour, St Helena during World War II, my hope that some mark of remembrance…
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RFA Fort Victoria has success chasing pirates again
MV Sagar Ratan Over the past few days ten pirates in two skiffs made repeated efforts to storm the Japanese owned, Singapore flagged, 2010 built, bulk carrier MV…
View moreBlasts From the Past! by Peter Maddison
During 1963, the RFA HQ in London began to appreciate that simple communication to RFA personnel afloat about current events in the RFA service was not being covered adequately in…
View moreThe BARALONG Affair
The BARALONG Affair and the Admiralty Cover-Up In 1900, Bucknall Steamship Lines Ltd. embarked on a new-building programme which added a further 21 new ships to their Fleet…
View moreThe ‘V’ men
On the 6 June 1944 the Allies landed on the north west coast of France, in what was the largest amphibious operation ever mounted. The planning behind this operation was truly…
View moreMutiny on RFA Prestol
In 1918 British Naval Forces were sent to the Baltic to keep the sea lanes open to the newly independent states of Estonia, Latvia and the Free City of…
View moreRFA Diligence receives a Mayday call
RFA Diligence receives a Mayday call RFA Diligence On 16 May 2011 RFA Diligence (A132), the Service’s Forward Repair Ship received a Mayday call from…
View more71st Anniversary of the explosion of RFA Bedenham at Gun Wharf – Gibraltar
71st Anniversary of the explosion of RFA Bedenham at Gun Wharf, Gibraltar On 27 April 1951 the naval armaments vessel RFA Bedenham, while unloading at Gun Wharf, Gibraltar was sunk…
View moreAn interesting life at sea
I joined the Merchant Navy in 1943 as a 15 year old cabin boy and spent two weeks at T.S Triton, a catering training school in the West India…
View moreMilitary Cargo
When Britain maintained overseas bases the RFA supplied a regular 12 passenger cargo shipping service to supply and maintain these outposts of the British Empire. Commercial companies – Orient/P&O had…
View moreThe story of the Darkdale Part 3
Darkdale remembered Ten years after writing about the sinking of the British oil tanker Darkdale and tragic deaths of the majority of its crew in Jamestown harbour, St Helena during…
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