Books about the Royal Fleet Auxiliary

 

 

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Author:          R O Neish

Publisher:     Whittles Publishing

ISBN:            978 184995 504 1

Published:     2022

 

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Author:              David Yates

Publisher:          Pen & Sword Books Ltd

ISBN                 978 1 84415624 5 

Published:        2006

 

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Author:              Admiral Sir John Woodward GBE KCB

Publisher:          Harper Collins, 77-85 Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8JB

ISBN                 0 00 215723 3

Published:        1992

 

There are three editions of this book, The one above is the first edition. Most of the RFA ships which sailed to the Falklands are mentioned in the above book.

 

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Fighting Merchantman

 

Author:              Sydney Goodman

Publisher:          Halsgrove Publishing, Media & Distribution

ISBN                 1 841141291

Published:          2001

 

 

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RFA Racer Book

 

Author:              Anthony Babb BEM

Publisher:          Anthony Babb BEM

ISBN                 9781070501239

Published:         2019

 

A novel and reference book concerning the work of the Royal Navy Salvage Section and in particular RFA Racer – a RFA Salvage ship during World War One

 

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West Coast Support Group

 

Author:                M P Cocker

Publisher:            Whittles Publishing Limited

ISBN                   1 870325 59 1

Published:           2003

 

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Book British Warships 39 to 45

 

 

Publisher:             Conway Maritime Press

ISBN                    0 85177 675 2

Published:            1996

 

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2WW Mil Legacy Book

 

Author:                David Wragg

Publisher:            Pen & Sword Military, 47 Church Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire

ISBN                   978.1.78159-318-9

Published:           2014

 

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Letters frm a RO

 

Letters from a Radio Officer

 

Author:                Ian M Malcolm

Publisher:            Moira Brown, Broughty Ferry, Dundee DD5 2HZ

ISBN                   978.1.52079.554.6

Published:           2013

 

Radio Officer Richard Edwin (Dick) Molland RFA sailed on RFA Wave Baron and a number of other RFA’s in the early 1960’s.

 

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The Sunken Gold 

 

Author:                Joseph A Williams

Publisher:            The History Press

ISBN                   978-0-7509-8893-3

Published:           2018 (UK Edition)

 

A detailed history of the recovery of gold bullion from HMS Laurentic off Ireland by divers from RFA Racer and RFA Corcyia at the end of World War One and in the early 1920’s

 

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Tunnards Tanker Tables

 

Author:                Captain Bertram Tunnard RFA

Publisher:            Brown Son & Ferguson, Glasgow

ISBN                    0851741711

Published:           1928 (Reprinted 1932)

 

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Stand By Nautical Telegraph Radio Code

Nautical Radio Code

 

The Stand by Nautical Telegraph & Radio Code

 

Author:                Captain Charles H Noel OBE RFA

Publisher:            Brown Son & Ferguson, Glasgow – 437 pages

ISBN                   B00EVNYA0S

Published:           1934 (Reprinted 1940)

 

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Well Engineered

 

Well Engineered

 

Author:                Ronald Blundell

Publisher:            Nisbet Media

ISBN                   978 0955300035

Published:           2017

 

 

 

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Sigwart

 

 

Royal Fleet Auxiliary: Its Ancestry and Affiliations 1600 -1968

 

Author:                E. E. Sigwart

Publisher:            Adlard Coles

ISBN                   13: 978 0229985814

Published:            March 1969

 

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The Royal Fleet Auxiliary, 1905-85

 

Author:                 Tony James

Publisher:             Maritime Books

ISBN                    13: 978 0907771210

Published:             September 1985

 

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Jon_Wise

 

Royal Fleet Auxiliary in Focus

 

Author:                 Jon Wise

Publisher:             Maritime Books

ISBN                    13: 978 0907771890

Published:            1 May 2000

 

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RFA Wave Premier:  Korean Wartime Voyage 1951 – 1952 – a view from the bridge

 

Author:                Philip Harland

Publisher:            Philip Harland

ISBN                    0:473 07032 4

Published             25 June 2000

 

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The Adventures of Mrs RFA Orangeleaf and Friends: The Pirates

 

Author:                Pierre Cornlover

Publisher:            The Pentland Press

ISBN                   13: 978 1858218779

Published:           1 August 2001

 

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The Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service Medal: Royal Warrant (Command Paper)

 

Author:                Ministry of Defence

Publisher:            Stationary Office Books

ISBN                   13: 978 0101526425

Published:            2 October 2001

 

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Royal Fleet Auxiliary: A Century of service

 

Author:                 Tom Adams and James R. Smith

Publisher:              Chatham Publishing

ISBN                    13: 978 1861762597

Published:             15 June 2005

 

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No Sea Too Rough: The Royal Fleet Auxiliary in the Falklands War

 

Author:                Geoff Puddefoot

Publisher:            Chatham Publishing

ISBN                   13: 978 1861763143

Published:            15 May 2007

 

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The Fourth Force: The Royal Fleet Auxiliary since the war

 

Author:              Geoff Puddefoot

Publisher:          Seaforth Publishing

ISBN                 13: 078 1848320468

Published:         30 October 2009

 

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Ready for Anything: The Royal Fleet Auxiliary from 1905 to the Korea War

 

Author:                 Geoff Puddefoot

Publisher:             Seaforth Publishing

ISBN                    13: 978 1848320744

Published:            18 November 2010

 

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GC on the Rock: The Story of George Henderson

 

Author:                 Terry Hissey

Publisher:             Civil Defence Association

ISBN:                   13: 978-0-9550153-3-5

Published             27 April 2011

 

(The story about the destruction of RFA Bedenham)