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Tankers 2
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Our first deck landing of a Harrier.
Note the people watching, in todays safety
consciousness none of this would have happened.
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Green Rover making waves in the English channel |
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Tidespring and Grey Rover alongside in Gibraltar.
The angle makes the ships look a similar size, but the
Rover class were a lot smaller than the 'Tides'
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RFA Appleleaf, the first in a new class of tankers.
This ship was sold to Australia, others in the class
include - Orangeleaf, Bayleaf and the bigger Oakleaf. |
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| RFA Derwentdale, one of the large Dale class tankers. |
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Another angle showing the size of the ship. |
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RFA Dewdale, the only one painted black.
In the background is Gibraltar.
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RFA Ennerdale or what was left of her.
This what happened when leaving Mahe in the Seychelles
she struck two unmarked rock pinnacles and sank |
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The older Ranger class of tanker. She and her sister
ships have long since been disposed of.
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Tidespring involved in a Ras with a Leander class frigate
while conducting a 'Vertrep' helicopter replenishment. |
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RFA Tidespring exercising with the west African
deployment.
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Helicopter view of Tidespring, as the helicopter comes
into land. |
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