01-Oct

On this day in 1948 RFA Wave Sovereign was in collision with HMS Sluys

02-Oct

On this day in 1959 RFA Wave Chief provided support during 1st Cod War

03-Oct

On this day in 1914 RFA Ferol was launched at Devonport

03-Oct

On this day in 1957 RFA Wave Emperor at Wallsend Slipway, River Tyne suffered fire damage while in refit

04-Oct

On this day in 1917 RFA Vitol entered into service

05-Oct

On this day in 1944 RFA Denbydale, a fuelling hulk at Gibraltar, was further damaged when hit by a minesweeper

06-Oct

On this day in 1945 RFA Ingeborg was released from Admiralty service

07-Oct

On this day in 1912 RFA Attendant was laid down at Chatham Dockyard

08-Oct

On this day in 1959 RFA Bishopdale was laid up at Devonport

09-Oct

On this day in 1939 RFA Nasprite was ordered

10-Oct

On this day in 1966 RFA Sea Crusader entered RFA service

11-Oct

On this day in 1918 RFA War Afridi was launched at Port Glasgow

12-Oct

On this day in 1939 RFA Black Ranger was laid down at Govan

13-Oct

On this day in 1944 HMRT Reward – later to become RFA Reward – was launched

14-Oct

On this day in 1920 RFA Innisshannon was handed over to the Disposal Board

15-Oct

On this day in 1921 RFA War Mehtar at the entrance to the harbour at Abadan was in collision with a steel tank lighter

15-Oct

On this day in 1959 RFA Pearleaf (2) was launched at Scotstoun

16-Oct

On this day in 1917 RFA Ebonol (1) was launched at Port Glasgow, River Clyde

16-Oct

On this day in 1944 RFA Wave Emperor was launched at Haverton Hill

16-Oct

On this day in 1945 RFA Olynthus was in collision with HMS LST 3028 at Bombay

17-Oct

On this day in 1949 RFA Wave Protector struck & demolished the Moreton Bay Lighthouse off Brisbane

17-Oct

On this day in 1970 RFA Wave Ruler (1) became a hulk at RAF Gan with her colours being lowered for the last time

18-Oct

On this day in 1918 RFA Industry was torpedoed & sunk in the Irish Sea. Twenty of the crew were killed

18-Oct

On this day in 1998 RFA Sea Centurion entered RFA service

19-Oct

On this day in 1914 RFA Aro purchased by the Admiralty from Elder Dempster

19-Oct

On this day in 1940 RFA Denbydale was launched as Empire Silver at Scotstoun, Glasgow

20-Oct

On this day in 1922 RFA Oleander (1) was launched at Pembroke Dock

21-Oct

On this day in 1931 RFA Olna (1) at anchor in fog in the St Lawrence River, Canada was hit by another ship & damaged

21-Oct

On this day in 1946 RFA Cherryleaf (1) was handed over to the MoT for disposal

22-Oct

On this day in 1941 RFA Darkdale was torpedoed & sunk off Jamestown, St. Helena. Forty one of the crew were killed

23-Oct

On this day in 1915 RFA Santa Margarerita was launched at Barrow

24-Oct

On this day in 1947 RFA Nucula was scuttled off Cuvier Island, New Zealand

24-Oct

On this day in 2003 RFA Brambleleaf (3) arrived at Portland as the last RFA back home from Operation Telic

25-Oct

On this day in 1947 RFA War Pindari was handed over to MoT for disposal

26-Oct

On this day in 1916 RFA Orangeleaf (1) was launched as RFA Bornol at Sunderland

27-Oct

On this day in 1913 RFA Trefoil was launched at Pembroke Dockyard

27-Oct

On this day in 1939 RFA Distol was in collision with RFA Arndale at Gosport Oil Fuel Jetty

27-Oct

On this day in 1939 RFA Brown Ranger was laid down at Govan

28-Oct

On this day in 1914 RFA Perthshire entered RFA service

29-Oct

On this day in 1932 RFA War Hindoo grounded 11 miles off Margate, Kent

29-Oct

On this day in 1944 RFA Fort Beauharnois was completed as Cornish Park at Vancouver, Canada

30-Oct

On this day in 1943 RFA Freshwell was launched

30-Oct

On this day in 1963 RFA Wave Baron was in collision with an Admiralty tug in Grand Harbour, Malta

31-Oct

On this day in 2002 RFA Wave Ruler (2) handed over by her builders & entered RFA service