GUNLINE, SUMMER 2013.
It would appear that there is to be a Summer 2013 edition of Gunline to be issued at sometime in June, this was picked up on the COMRFA Facebook page…
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LIVERPOOL TRAVEL SITREP
Travelling in Liverpool during the Reunion and Battle of the Atlantic 70 weekend. Member Bob Settle has sent this sitrep regarding the Liverpool Underground, Bob Writes:- I have just learnt…
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Summer Lunch, Sunday 23rd June 2013 Thank you all for your support at the recent lunch in Bellingham. It was great to have such a large turnout with 32 people…
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Our Chairman has received a letter from Dr E. J.W. Jones regarding a June Reunion in London at the Naval Club London :- Reunion of Officers and Scientists: R.R.S. Discovery International Indian Ocean Expedition…
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RFAA SOLENT BRANCH NEWSLETTER Spring 2013 Dear Friends, I fear the Spring Newsletter is running a little astern of station (again, I hear you mutter) but Spring itself seems to be…
Click to Read Full ArticleTHE RFA IN THE 1970S
It is often said that if you can remember the 1960s you weren’t there, does the same, I wonder, apply to the 1970s. During a “sorting out stuff” session at…
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Member Tom Adams (London Branch) a dedicated researcher of RFA history, remember the book “The Royal Fleet Auxiliary, A Century of Service”, co-authored with Jim Smith has produced a selected…
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Mike Day writes :- MT JUNIATA EX- RFA SPRUCOL The Creosol class were 18 ships in the second “1,000 ton Class” of Admiralty designed harbour oilers. As Captain Sigwart said…
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On a recent visit to Alrewas, Adrian Walker compiled this video which features the RFA Memorial.
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Have you ever seen the 1954 Lerner and Lowe musical “Brigadoon” starring Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse where a small Scotish village appears only once and for one day only…
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