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	ROYAL FLEET AUXILIARY FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The RFA really came into its own in World_War_II when the British fleet was often far from available bases, either due to the enemy capturing available bases, or, in the Pacific, the sheer distances involved.
		After 1945, the RFA assumed centre stage in supporting the operations of the Royal Navy in the many conflicts that the Navy was involved in.
		The RFA performed important service to the Far East Fleet off Korea from 1950 until 1953, when sustained carrier operations were again mounted in Pacific waters.
	www.igopay.com /Royal_Fleet_Auxiliary (976 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - Final Task Group ship due home from Gulf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		RFA tanker Brambleleaf was due back in Portland, Dorset, today, but was reported to be slightly behind schedule because of adverse weather conditions.
		During the conflict in Iraq Brambleleaf and her sister RFAs Bayleaf and Orangeleaf were under the direct command of the US Command, and the three tankers provided vital fuel for warships, shuttling back and forth between Jebel Ali and the Iraqi coast to resupply Coalition ships in the northern Gulf.
		Brambleleaf also supported American ships of the Fifth Fleet, including warships of the four aircraft strike groups headed by the giant carriers USS Abraham Lincoln, Nimitz, Kittyhawk and Constellation, and the expeditionary strike groups led by Tarawa, Nassau, ATF East and Iwo Jima.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2003/0310/0003102401.asp (496 words)

	Leaf Class Support Tankers
		Brambleleaf, Orangeleaf and Bayleaf measure 170.7 metres in length, 25.9 metres in breadth and have a beam of 11.8 metres.
		She displaces 49,648 tonnes, making he the largest vessel operated by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).She is 174 metres long, with a breadth of 32 metres and draught of 11.2 metres and a complement of 39.
		Brambleleaf is the only vessel of this class to be owned outright by the Ministry of Defence as opposed to being on charter.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/Today/Leaf.htm (549 words)

	50th Anniversary of the United Nations
		RFA Brambleleaf was one of a number of British Naval Vessels in the area during the early seventies, monitoring and acting as observers during the French Nuclear Tests which at that time, were conducted atmospherically.
		The Brambleleaf which visited in May of this year however, was not the same vessel that called in 1971.
		The RFA Brambleleaf which visited in 1995 was the third vessel to have this name.
	www.stamps.gov.pn /50thAnnOfUnitedNations.htm (469 words)

	Royal Fleet Auxiliary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The RFA really came into its own in WWII when the British fleet was often far from available bases, either due to the enemy capturing available bases, or, in the Pacific, the sheer distances involved.
		The RFA performed important service to the Far East Fleet off Korea from 1950 until 1953, when sustained carrier operations were again mounted in Pacfic waters.
		The RFA is partially civilian and partially military manned.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/royal_fleet_auxiliary (1002 words)

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		Discovery replaced her namesake on completion and continued in the role of Oceanography research working for various agencies and was manned in the main by RFA crews.
		RFA tankers also took on the role of replenishing the Navies of both Australia and New Zealand.
		By far the largest single group of ships to join the RFA in 1970 were at the time manned entirely by Chinese crew, all from Hong Kong, I await to be enlightened as to where the manning comes from in the 21st Century.
	www.merchantnavyofficers.com /rfa3.html (2909 words)

	Navy News - Ships of the Royal Navy - RFA Brambleleaf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BUILT originally for commercial service as a tanker bearing the name Hudson Deep, RFA Brambleleaf has instead spent the majority of her life roaming the oceans flying the standard of the auxiliary navy.
		Topping up the Fleet with fuel is the principal task of Brambleleaf and her sisters RFAs Oakleaf (considerably larger at nearly 50,000 tonnes) Bayleaf and Orangeleaf.
		In June 1942 the first Brambleleaf was ferrying vital fuel to the beleaguered garrison of Tobruk (the fortress fell later that month to Erwin Rommel) when she was torpedoed by U-boat.
	www.navynews.co.uk /ships/brambleleaf.asp (523 words)

	Oil Tankers and Coaling Ships
		A387 Fort Victoria at the Trafalgar 200 Fleet Review, June 2005, with A388 RFA Fort George and A390 RFA Wave Ruler in the background.
		RFA Fort Victoria at the Trafalgar 200 Fleet Review, June 2005.
		RFA Fort George at the Trafalgar 200 Fleet Review, June 2005.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /auxiliaries.htm (2584 words)

	RFA Tankers 3
		RFA Wave Knight, the new lady of the fleet
		RFA Brambleleaf, light ship, alongside in South yard Plymouth
		RFA Wave Ruler was a bunkering station for
	home.freeuk.net /rfa.graphical/tankers3.html (172 words)

	Leaf Class
		Bayleaf and Brambleleaf displaced 17,960 tons and measured 556ft in length, 71ft in breadth and 30ft in draught.
		Chartered to the RFA between 1959 and 1973.
		Chartered to the RFA between 1959 and 1972.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/Postwar/RFA/leaf.htm (815 words)

	Port Of Liverpool - Official Website
		In addition, NSL carried out the refit and maintenance programme of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Fort George at Port Glasgow, where the company leased the Inchgreen drydock for the work, transporting equipment, shipyard/project team and workforce 280 miles from the Mersey to carry out the work.
		This was followed by the RFA vessel Sir Bedivere, which came into the Bidston yard in autumn 2003.
		The company also took on the emergency drydocking of the RFA Brambleleaf, taking on the Inchgreen drydock once again for this work.
	www.portofliverpool.co.uk /new/marineserv.htm (540 words)

	Marine Corps General honored aboard Curtis Wilbur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54) received Marine Corps General Anthony C. Zinni, commander in chief, U.S. Central Command, at a reception in his honor hosted by the honorable Theodore Kattouf, American ambassador to the UAE, and Vice Adm. Charles Moore, Commander, Fifth Fleet.
		Brambleleaf and the French repair ship FS Jules Verne.
		As his motorcade approached Curtis Wilbur's brow, Zinni saw a warship glistening from bullnose to transom and shining from the top of the mast to the waterline, despite having pulled into port only two days previously.
	www.c7f.navy.mil /news2/7frel481.html (405 words)

	Royal Navy
		Pilot vessels at HMNB Portsmouth put Triton in a number of different berths around the dockyard in order to better understand the characteristics and potential problems of docking a large trimaran and found no problems.
		She also undertook simulated RAS evolutions in the Devonport training areas with the Type 23 frigate Argyll and RFA Brambleleaf in order to ascertain any pressure wave effects encountered between a trimaran and a monohull performing this evolution.
		All evolutions were conducted in a standard manner a number of times and no problems or anomolies were encountered.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /rn/print.php?page=2093 (492 words)

	News - Portsmouth Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More
		Sam, four-year-old grandson of Captain Brian Waters, was among the handful of relatives waiting on the quayside to celebrate RFA Orangeleaf's return to Portsmouth after service in the Gulf.
		The man at the helm scooped him into his arms and carried him up the gangplank before sitting him in the captain's chair on the bridge and placing his cap on his head.
		When RFA Orangeleaf nosed into Portsmouth Harbour yesterday only 21 relatives waited to greet her.
	www.thenews.co.uk /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=455&ArticleID=524951 (359 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 16 Jun 2003 (pt 16)
		For completeness details have also been provided for 2003 until end of May. Also included is a visit by MV Hartland Points as part of the Ministry of Defence's Joint Rapid Reaction Force Ro-Ro capability.
		HMS Tireless was also alongside Gibraltar between 19 May 2000 and 7 May 2001 for repairs.
		To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which Royal Navy ships are in dry docks.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030616/text/30616w16.htm (383 words)

	Week Two - British Task Force Movements - Falklands War 1982 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Of the four LSL's sailing at this time, "Sir Percivale" and "Sir Lancelot" leave from Marchwood, and "Sir Galahad" and "Sir Geraint" from Devonport.
		nly to top-up the RFA's in the tanker holding areas - "British Esk" from Portland, "British Tay" after loading at Milford Haven and Campbeltown, and "British Test" from Portsmouth.
		They are replaced in mid month by more modern MR.2's, but from the UK, later fly SAR for the Harriers as they stage to Ascension.
	freespace.virgin.net /gordon.smith4/F28weektwo.htm (706 words)

	British Ships
		RFA Sir Bedivere, RFA Sir Tristram, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Percivale
		Sea Crusader provided vital sea lift to Middle East for the British forces in one of her last roles, Sea Crusader left RFA service in July 2003 after a career in RAF service which took her around the world to various conflicts.
		The ship had joined the RFA in October 1996.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /gulf2/ships.html (579 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 27 Feb 2003 (pt 4)
		Two new Wave-class Auxiliary Oilers (AO) RFA Wave Knight and RFA Wave Ruler are expected to enter service in early spring this year.
		On current plans four of the five Landing Ships Logistics, RFA Sir Geraint, Sir Tristram Sir Percivale and Sir Galahad are expected to be replaced by four larger and more capable Bay Class vessels in 2004 and 2005.1 also refer the hon.
		HMS Iron Duke and RFA Black Rover are also planned to deploy to Sierra Leone waters in the next few weeks as a further demonstration of UK commitment.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030227/text/30227w04.htm (1128 words)

	Week 10 - British Task Force Movements - Falklands War 1982 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Going in the opposite direction, the three tugs stationed in the area make their way to South Georgia.
		By then, RFA "Fort Grange" has joined the CVBG to start replenishment operations and helicopter support ship "Engadine" is entering the
		These include RFA "Resource" which calls in for replenishment herself, destroyer "Antrim" returning this time as guardship, and RFA "Pearleaf" to take over as station tanker from the departed "Blue Rover".
	freespace.virgin.net /gordon.smith4/F50weektenTF.htm (587 words)

	Preview - June 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Team leader Commodore(E) Mike Norfolk said: “It has been the tradition for RFA vessels to be refitted and repaired in commercial shipyards around the UK for the majority of the RFA's 100 years of existence — which it celebrates this month.
		Whilst the exact number of clusters and their size and shape remains under consideration at this time, an advertisement was placed in the June 2005 edition of the Ministry of Defence (MoD)Contracts Bulletin seeking expressions of interest in the proposal for the work estimated to have a value of £100M to £400M.
		He was fully confident that this would be addressed with the professionalism and good humour the team always displayed and that best value for money would continue to be achieved at all times.
	www.mod.uk /dpa/news/preview_jun05.htm (7477 words)

	HMAS Vendetta 1 - Royal Australian Navy History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A fuelling base was established at Suda Bay in Crete and on 1 November the cruiser HMS AJAX landed troops and artillery.
		By the evening of 1 November and despite enemy bombing, AJAX had disembarked her troops, FIONA and CHAKLA were alongside Suda pier unloading stores, PROTECTOR had laid her nets and gun sites and dumps were being established near Suda Point.
		On 10 February she proceeded to Darwin escorting RFA BISHOPDALE, arriving on 17 February.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/vendetta1.htm (7382 words)

	News November 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker RFA GREY ROVER returns to HM Naval Base Devonport on November 26 following an eight-month deployment that took her all around the Far East, with port visits in China, Russia, the Philippines, Japan, Brunei, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore.
		In true RFA fashion on the day the ship arrives back home she goes straight back to work as support tanker for the Flag Officer Sea Training organisation, based in the Devonport.
		RFA GREY ROVER and HMS Exeter took part in the annual Five Power Defence Agreement exercises in May and September.
	www.merseyshipping.co.uk /news/2004/11_2004/112004.htm (4816 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Scotland \| New life for historic Clyde name
		However, it has reached "critical mass" within those facilities after a successful year.
		NSL has already used Inchgreen for major contracts, such as the refit of RFA Fort George and RFA Brambleleaf.
		Mr Syvret said more than 1,000 people were employed at the Inverclyde site during the work, including sub-contractors and local workers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4038623.stm (417 words)

	A &P Group - world class shiprepair - News Introduction
		Please find below a list of our most recent press releases each one is a downloadable pdf file.
		RFA Fort Rosalie completed sucessfully at AandP Tyne
		RFA Brambleleaf to dry dock in AandP Falmouth
	www.ap-projects.co.uk /news (174 words)

	Iraqi Army In Op IRAQI FREEDOM PIKE
		RFA FORT VICTORIA Fleet support tanker 18 Jan — with 4 Merlin (814 NAS)
		RFA GREY ROVER Small fleet tanker 30 Jan — 20 Apr retasked from South Atlantic
		RFA ARGUS Primary casualty receiving ship 15 Jan — 28 May with 2 Sea King Mk 6 (820 NAS)
	www.militaryunits.com /BritishOIF.htm (689 words)

	Sea Power International
		The ship is operated by Qinetiq (formerly the U.K. Defense Evaluation and Research Agency); the trials were funded by the Defense Procurement Agency (DPA).
		Since delivery to Qinetiq in August last year, the Triton has conducted a series of seakeeping and structural trials, as well as major naval operational trials, which included a replenishment at sea (RAS) with the auxiliary RFA Brambleleaf.
		During a visit to the East Coast of the United States, Triton carried out side-by-side trials with the U.S. Coast Guard medium-endurance cutter USCGC Campbell.
	www.navyleague.org /seapower_mag/oct2001/sea_power_international.htm (1201 words)

	Surface Forces RE:Will France overtake Britain as the 2nd best navy?? StrategyPage.com
		The Bay class is capable of accommodating either 1 Harrier V/STOL type aircraft, 1 Chinook, 1 V-22 Osprey or 2 EH-101 Merlins.
		Able to carry considerably more troops (356 fully equipped troops, although this can be increased to 500 using undesignated space, or to 700 in war "overload" conditions.) The new ships at over 16,000 tonnes full load will be much larger, more capable and flexible than existing RFA LSL's, and have more than twice their capacity.
		They will provide a major increase in the capability of the RFA to support amphibious operations and other military tasks such as peacekeeping duties and disaster relief around the world.
	www.strategypage.com /messageboards/messages/8-4143.asp (4062 words)

	bootjesverhalen, verzameld door een oude man .
		RFA Black Rover (Fleet Tanker) sails for exercises
		RFA Brambleleaf (Support Tanker) anchors in Plymouth Sound
		A sharp-eyed lookout in a Royal Fleet Auxiliary supply ship saved the life of a shipwrecked Yemeni fisherman – although the rescue came a day too late for the man’s companion.
	steinmeijer.blogspot.com (8619 words)

	COMBATSIM.COM: Daily News
		Funded by the Defence Procurement Agency, DPA, this was the latest success in RV Triton's demanding trials programme and the first time ever that a helicopter has landed on a trimaran.
		Since delivery to QinetiQ in August of last year the ship has conducted a series of sea keeping and structural trials together with major Naval Operations trials, which included a replenishment at sea (RAS) with RFA Brambleleaf.
		Whilst visiting the USA's East Coast, RV Triton carried out side by side trials with the US Coastguard's USCGC Campbell.
	www.combatsim.com /cnews/arch/cnews-arc89.htm (1327 words)

	Ivan Berryman
		One of Albions Westland Wessex helicopters is passing overhead and RFA Stromness is at anchor in the distance.
		Key ships of the British task Force sail in close formation in the Mediterranean Sea during the build-up to the coalition liberation of Iraq in march 2003.
		HMS Active, RFA Olna, and HMS Coventry by Ivan Berryman
	www.militaryartcompany.com /ivan_berryman.htm (4400 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		– Babcock Thorn announce two major refit contracts for RFA vessels, “Gold River” and “Brambleleaf.” – Fortronic of Dunfermline wins gold award for exports from Scottish Council Development and Industry.
		The first girl Cubs join 114th Fife (Linburn) Scouts.
		– Dockyard wins £40m contract for refit of RFA Sir Bedivere.
	www.dunfermlinepress.com /bygone_dunfermline/1991_1997.htm (7041 words)

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