HMS Ark Royal with 4 NA39 Buccaneers, 4 Sea Vixens and an anti submarine Gannet on the flight deck being refueled by RFA Tidereach. Also being refueled is a county class destroyer. On the right is a HMAS Modified Type 12 Frigate. (Admiralty Photograph)
HMS Albion (Commando Carrier), HMS Barrosa (astern) and HMS Brighton being refuelled from RFA Tidereach. It was very rare for a ship to be refuelled astern. The refuelling hose being paid out from the tanker and grappled and picked up from the sea by the receiving vessel.
(Admiralty Photograph)
Daring class destroyer:-Vampire was regularly deployed to South East Asia during her career seen here during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation.
ID number blanked out for security reasons in this conflict
She is now on permanent display at Darling Harbour, Sydney and is Australia's largest...
The fifth USS Independence (CV/CVA-62) , Forrestal class carrier of the US Navy. She was the fourth and final member of this class of conventionally powered super carriers Seen here about to refuel at sea in the South China Sea on her return to the US Dec 1965 following deployment in the...
Admiralty Photograph :- HMS Albion (R07), nicknamed "The Old Grey Ghost of the Borneo Coast", was a 22,000 ton Centaur-class light fleet carrier of the Royal Navy seen here during the Indonesian Confrontation 1965 being refuelled by RFA Tidereach
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