General News

RFA(?) Freshspring. So frequently I post pictures of RFAs in that “Great RAS Corridor in the Sky”, well here’s a story about “The One That Got Away” Freshspring was built…

Fort George and Her Date with a Gas Axe at Aliaga ……. Thanks Dave! These photographs are reproduced here by very kind permission of Peter Knego/Midshipcentury.com 2013. Peter has also produced…

Summer is a coming in and the Whale Island Barbeque has been dusted off again ready for the RFA Summer Barbeque on Wednesday 12th June at HMS Excellent, Whale Island.…

STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STOP PRESS Hot off the press, Captain Rob Dorey RFA  has been named as the next COMRFA and ACOS AFSUP taking over from Commodore Bill on…

Captain Shaun Jones, wife Stephanie, daughter Camilla and son Adrian visited Buckingham Palace on Friday 10th May 2013 where he was invested with an OBE by Prince Charles earned during…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…