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Stores Ships
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RFA Tarbatness, one of three in this class.
Lyness and Stromness being the other two, all three were bought by the American navy and re-named. Lovely ships to work on, and carried stores and spares. |
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Exercising, probably off of Gibraltar. Picture taken from RFA Olmeda |
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RFA Tarbatness on exercise with target aircraft.
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A picture from George Mortimore, showing the launch of RFA Stromness. George has quite a library of photo's that he has taken over his extensive career at sea, many you will find online at other good related sites. |
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A nice aerial shot of RFA Stromness
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Picture of RFA Stromness, taken during the Falklands conflict. This shows a near miss bomb, dropping between both ships. |
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RFA Fort Victoria, taken in Plymouth Sound.
This is the new class of one-stops, capable of supplying, fuel, stores and ammunition. These ships also have very good helicopter facilities. |
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RFA Fort George getting a tow, photographed from RFA Gold Rover. |
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Tugs eye view of the stern of Fort George.
Do a mouse over and you will see the cavernous internal main deck. |
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