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• Medal for Suez Canal Zone 1951 to 1954

  RFA Personnel who served on ships directly in support of the Suez Canal Conflict may now apply for the Naval General Service Medal 1918-62, with the ‘Canal Zone’ clasp.   ...

• RFA Broomdale damaged twice in a year

  RFA Broomdale damaged twice in a year. For RFA Broomdale 1944 was a very bad year with explosions, torpedoes and expressions of displeasure! ...

• Flash Bang but no Wallop the story of Operation Grapple Britains H Bomb Tests

  Flash, Bang but no Wallop, the story of Operation Grapple, Britain's H Bomb Tests.   Operation Grapple was the name given to the series of British Nuclear tests of the Hydrogen bomb, they were conducted between 1956 and 1958 at Malden Island (now c...

• Rescued by the RFA in a hurricane

  Rescued by the RFA in a hurricane RFA Petroleum arrived five days late at Portsmouth on 2nd February 1914 with a cargo of oil from Port Arthur Texas, USA after experiencing terrible weather during her passage home. ...

• The good ship Spahi and her cargo

  The good ship ‘Spahi’ and her cargo By December 1942 the crew of RFA King Salvor were very busy helping to clear the sunken ships which littered the ports of North Africa. These ships had either been sunk through enemy action or by Allied Forces scut...

• The Story of RFA Nucula

  RFA Nucula, a tanker was built as the s.s. Hermione and completed in Newcastle by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co in September 1906 for C T Bowring & Co Ltd of London. She was completed as coal burning but converted in October 1907 to oil-fired. By Apri...

• How RFA Prestol sank RMS Queen Mary

  How RFA Prestol ‘sank’ RMS Queen Mary Royal Navy ‘War Games’ training in 1937 was a far grander affair than to-days ‘Thursday War’. In July of that year Britain was at ‘war’ with ‘Blue’ whose naval forces had been bottled up in Blueâ...