Remembering
John E Whittaker Engineer Sub-Lieutenant RFA Thermol died 26th of May 1921
Lam Ah-Sow Engine Room Storekeeper RFA Abbeydale died 26th of May 1939
F Easey Chief Engineer Officer RFA Mixol died 26th of May 1940

RFA’s on Canvas

RFA’s on Canvas

 

RFA Tidespring (1)

 

 

by Tim Walker

 

RFA Tidespring (1) was an Improved Tide Class Fleet Replenishment Tanker
which entered service in 1963. She left the Service in 1992

 

  

Tim Walker TSpring 3

 

 by kind permission of the artist

 

 

 

RFA Resurgent

   

by Tim Walker

  

RFA Resurgent was a Retainer Class Armaments/Victualling Stores Issuing Ship
which entered service in 1951. She left the Service in 1981

  

 

Tim Walker Resurgent 2 

 

 by kind permission of the artist

 

 

 

RFA Maine (4)

 

by Jim Rae

 

RFA Maine

 

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

 

RFA Black Rover

 

 

by Tim Walker

 

 

RFA Black Rover is a Rover Class small fleet tanker which entered
service in 1974 and she is still serving in the RFA Fleet 

 

Tim-Walker-Black-Rover

 

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

 

RFA Stromness

 

by Tim Walker

 

RFA Stromness was a Ness Class stores support ship which entered
service in 1967. She left the Service in 1983 on being sold to the 
United States Military Sealift Command
 
 
Tim-Walker-Stromness
 
 
 
by kind permission of the artist
 
 
 
 

RFA Resource

 

by Tim Walker

 

RFA Resource was a Regent Class Armanent store ship which entered
service in 1967. She left the Service in 1997
 
 

Tim-Walker-Resource

 

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

 

RFA Fort Grange

 

by Tim Walker

 

RFA Fort Grange is a store ship which entered service in 1978.
In June 2000 her name was changed to RFA Fort Rosalie and
she is still serving in the RFA Fleet
 

 

Fort Grange

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

RFA Pearleaf (2)

 

by Tim Walker

 

RFA Pearleaf (2) served as a Leaf Class support tanker between 1960 and 1986

 

Pearleaf 2 

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

RFA Olna (3)

 

by Tim Walker

 

RFA Olna (3) served in Operation Corporate in 1982 and received
a Falkland Islands 1982 Battle Honour

 

Olna3 in San Carlos

by kind permission of the artist 

 

 

PAS Freshener at Gibraltar

 

by Cornelis Bolding

 

PAS Freshener was an RFA from 1942 to 1946

 

RFa Freshener

this picture is displayed at the Marine Museum, Den Helder

 

 

HMS Ringdove off Africa

by Jim Rae

 

HMS Ringdove later became the salvage vessel RFA Melita in 1915

 

Ringdove 2500 

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

HMS Belfast moving alongside a 

Wave Class tanker to refuel

 

by Jim Rae

 

Belfast 2550

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

RFA Wave Chief

by Jim Rae

 

conducting a stern RAS with H M Royal Yacht Britannia off South Georgia in 1957,

HMS Protector is in the background

 

Antarctic

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

HMS Manica

by Herbert Hillier

 

Manica_1915xx

HMS Manica - the RFA's first aircraft carrier at Kephalos Bay, Imbros, 1915 

Copyright IWM

 

 

RFA Argus

by Graham Hill

 

rfa-argus_on_board

by kind permission of Mark Littlejohn of The Colours Call Online Military Art Gallery

 

 

RFA Wave Chief with HMAS Bataan

by Frank Norton

 

 

RFA Wave Chief with HMAS Bataan

© Australian War Memorial

 

 

 

RFA Black Ranger

by Jim Rae

 

 

RFA Black Ranger

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

 

RFA Eddyfirth and RFA Brown Ranger

by Jim Rae

 

 

RFA Eddyfirth and RFA Brown Ranger

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

 

RFA Gold Rover

by Jim Rae

 

 

RFA Gold Rover

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

 

RFA Tidespool

by Jim Rae

 

 

RFA Tidespool

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

RFA Black Ranger

by Jim Rae

 

 

RFA Black Ranger

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

 

RFA Olmeda RAS's HMS Broadsword

by Jim Rae

 

 

RFA Olmeda RAS's HMS Broadsword

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

A Tide Class Tanker

by Jim Rae

 

 

A Tide Class Tanker

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

RFA Olna (3)

by Jim Rae

 

 

RFA Olna (3)

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

RFA Black Ranger

by Jim Rae

 

 

RFA Black Ranger

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

HMS Campanula RASing with a Wave Class Tanker

by Jim Rae

 

 

HMS Campanula RASing with a Wave Class Tanker

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

RFA Wave Baron

by Jim Rae

 

 

RFA Wave Baron

by kind permission of the artist

 

 

 

RFA Mounts Bay 

by Edgar Hodges

 

 

RFA Mounts Bay

by kind permission of Rick Taylor

 

 

RMS Dunottar Castle artist unknown

later to become RFA Caribbean

 

 

RFA Caribbean

from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division

 

 

 

RFA Wave Laird

RAS's with HMS Scorpion

artist unreadable

 

 

RFA Wave Laird RAS's with HMS Scorpion

Artistic licence appears to have been applied to the full

 

 

RFA Tidespring

by Lukman Sinclair

 

RFA Tidespring

Image courtesy of the artist and sinclairfineart.co.uk - with grateful thanks

 

 

HMAS Westralia II by Phil Short

after RFA service as RFA Appleleaf (3)

 

HMAS Westralia II by Phil Short after RFA service as RFA Appleleaf (3)

Image courtesy of the Royal Australian Navy - with grateful thanks

 

 

RFA Wave Baron

 by Ossie Jones

 

 

RFA Wave Baron

 

 

RFA Bacchus

 by Ossie Jones

 

 

RFA Bacchus

 

 

 

H.M. Ambulance Transport Panama by W Jeneway

later to become RFA Maine (3) 

 

 

H.M. Ambulance Transport Panama by W Jeneway later to become RFA Maine (3)

Image courtesy of the British Mercantile Marine Memorial Collection

 

 

Tug Turmoil artist unknown

when out of RFA Service 

 

 

Tug Turmoil artist unknown when out of RFA Service

 

 

HMS Thrush in 1892 by W Fred Mitchell

before entering RFA Service 

 

 

HMS Thrush in 1892 by W Fred Mitchell before entering RFA Service

 

 

HM Rescue Tug Samsonia in 1944 by Stephen Bone

before entering RFA Service

 

 

HM Rescue Tug Samsonia in 1944 by Stephen Bone before entering RFA Service

Image courtesy of the Imperial War Museum © Crown Copyright acknowledged

 

 

SS Lake Erie artist unknown

before entering RFA Service as RFA Aspenleaf

 

 

SS Lake Erie artist unknown before entering RFA Service as RFA Aspenleaf

 

 

RFA Kharki artist Peter Hogan

 

 

RFA Kharki artist Peter Hogan

 

 

MV Hudson Cavalier artist J Cobb

before entering RFA Service as RFA Appleleaf (3)

 

 

MV Hudson Cavalier artist J Cobb before entering RFA Service as RFA Appleleaf (3)

 

 

RFA Fort Victoria artist Derek Pam

 

 

RFA Fort Victoria artist Derek Pam

 

 

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