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A Bibliography of Royal Fleet Auxiliary History Thomas a Adams MBE A bibliography of Royal Fleet Auxiliary history Thomas A Adams MBE Original date: July 1998 Revised date: 22 May 2014 This selected bibliography relates to the ships, organisations, equipments and events associated with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service. It is a compilation from private working papers. The analysis, opinions and conclusions expressed or implied in this note are those of the author/curator and do not necessarily represent the views of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary or any other organisation or enterprise. The author asserts ownership of this bibliography and asserts moral rights to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Creative Commons (see final page). Appropriate acknowledgement must be made if extracts are reproduced or this note is cited as a source of information. © Copyright Thomas A Adams MBE MCIJ 1998, 2014 The Fast Fleet Replenishment tanker RFA TIDEFLOW [ANRS collection] Page 2 of 58 Introduction This illustrated bibliography is intended to This bibliography is arranged Format provide a guide on where to find alphabetically in three sections Books, Papers/articles: author/editor (surname, information on the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Articles (including monographs and initials) [publication or publisher]. Paper papers) and Selected official records. Service and its heritage. This heritage title, periodical/journal title, volume, includes the running of naval hospital ships Initially this bibliography was drawn from number, date, page number (pp/ff). and conducting underway replenishment- the research undertaken for the Abstract or annotation. at-sea. It lists primary and secondary publication: Royal Fleet Auxiliary – A historical and technical sources – books, century of service by Thomas A Adams journals, press material, reports, lectures and James R Smith, published June 2005 Books: author/editor (surname, initials). to professional and industrial bodies, by Chatham (London), ISBN 1 86176-259- Title, city of publication, publisher, edition, product leaflets and grey literature. Also 3, on behalf of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary no of pages (pp/ff). Cost. Abstract or listed are known official and semi-official Association. annotation documents preserved as part of our It has since been updated and expanded national memory in The National Archives in particular to update information from (formerly the Public Record Office) Kew, official records in The National Archives Naval Historical Branch (Portsmouth), (Spring 2014). National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, the Imperial War Museum, London, The British Library and the ICRC, Geneva. Every effort has been made to cite those publications that have an emphasis upon the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, its history, heritage, administration, functions and ships. Annotations are included where the curator/author felt that the titles are not self-explanatory. Adams | A bibliography of Royal Fleet Auxiliary history | Page 3 of 58 Books Brown, D K, RCNC, The design and Clapp, Michael and Southby-Tailyour, construction of British Warships 1939- Ewen, Amphibious Assault Falklands – 1945, Vol 3, Amphibious warfare the Battle of San Carlos Water. London, vessels and auxiliaries – The Official Leo Cooper, 1996, 300pp, illustrated, Record. London, Conway Maritime, 1996, - index, ISBN 0 85052 420 2. Extensive pp, illustrated and index, ISBN 085177 675 coverage of Amphibious Task Group 2. £25.00. Book is based on The Official TG317.0 with its RFA Sir class LSLs. Records of the Navy’s Construction Clark, Gregory, DOC – 100 year history Department , this includes the LSGs, tugs of the Sick Berth Branch, London, and a chapter on RFA tankers. HMSO for Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth, ISBN 0 11 290427 0, paperback, £6.95. Chapter 5 deals with Adams, Thomas A and Smith, James R, Naval Hospital Ships including RFA Royal Fleet Auxiliary – a century of MAINE. service. London, Chatham Publishing, 2005, 200pp, illustrated, index, foreword Combat Fleets of the World. United by HRH The Duke of York, £19.99, ISBN 1 States Naval Institute Press, Annapolis. 86176 259 3. This is the centennial 1977 to current, bi-annual (English chronology of the RFA written in language) reference book originally association with the RFA and the RFA published as Flottes de combat in 1897. Association. Brown, David (Head of the Naval Historical Arranged in alphabetical order by nation, the content include technical details and British Corporation Register. Glasgow. Branch), The Royal Navy and the illustrations of warships, coastguard and Annual 1890-1947. Their Register book Falklands War. London, Leo Cooper, paramilitary vessels and auxiliaries sometimes contains more details than that 1987, 384pp illustrated and index, ISBN 0 including RFAs. This reference book recorded in Lloyd’s Register. Some RFAs 85052 059 2. This is the nearest thing to sometimes contains more details than were registered with the British an official naval history of the Falklands Jane’s Fighting Ships. Corporation War of 1982 with extensive coverage off all ships. Adams | A bibliography of Royal Fleet Auxiliary history | Page 4 of 58 Dittmar F J & Colledge J J, British photographic book. Covers tugs that were does include RFAs ARGUS, ENGADINE Warships 1914-19, –, Ian Allan, 1972. rated as RFAs. and RELIANT (3). Lists RFAs and British hospital ships. Hobbs, David. The British Pacific Fleet : Flintham, Vic, High Stakes – Britain’s air The Royal Navy’s Most Powerful Strike arms in action 1945-1990. Barnsley, Pen Force, Barnsley, Seaforth Publishing, & Sword, 2009, 420pp, illustrated, no 2012, hardback, 480pp, illustrated, index. index, £40.00, ISBN 978 184415 815 7. £35.00. Comprehensive coverage of the Excellent Fleet Air Arm coverage with creation and role of the fleet train. references to RFAs. Garner, J W, International Law and the world war, London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1920. Cover German violations re sinking of Hospital Ships. Harvey W J & Turrel K. Empire Tugs, World Ship Society, ISBN 0 905617 47 9, 160pp, index, softback, 1988. Well illustrated. Some reference to tugs that were rated as RFAs. Hobbs, David, Cmdr MBE RN. Aircraft Carriers of the Royal and James, Tony. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary Commonwealth Navies, London, 1905-1985, Maritime Books, 1985, ISBN 0 Greenhill Books, ISBN 1 85367 252 1, 907776 21 1, £4.95, softback. A black and 265pp, index, 1996. Sub title says – this is white photographic publication, a complete illustrated encyclopedia from unfortunately it does contain a number of Hannan, Bill. Fifty Yeas of Naval Tugs, World War 1 to the present. This book Maritime Books, (c 1990) ISBN 0 907771 inaccuracies and omissions. 25 4, 160pp, softback, £4.95, Primarily a Adams | A bibliography of Royal Fleet Auxiliary history | Page 5 of 58 Jane’s Fighting Ships. London, Annual Lloyd’s of London. Lloyd’s War Losses: originally published as Janes’s All the The Second World War, 3 September World’s Fighting Ships by Brown & Co, 1939-14 August 1945, London, 1989- later S Low, Marston & Co Ltd, and now by 1991, Lloyd’s of London Press. HIS Jane’s Year Books. Arranged in Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, London, alphabetical order by nation, this contains Annual. Lists major British and foreign technical details and illustrations of their registered ships. First published in 1764 as warships, coastguard, paramilitary vessels The Register of Shipping. In 1949 and auxiliaries. With pre-World War Two amalgamated with the British Corporation. editions some caution is needed when Content is tabulated technical and researching auxiliaries. ownership data of self-propelled merchant Johnson-Allen, John. They couldn’t have Jones, Geoffrey P. Under Three Flags, ships over 100 gross tons. Not all RFAs, done it without us – The Merchant Navy London, William Kimber, 1973. Corgi particularly pre-World War Two, appear in in the Falklands War, Seafarer Books, paperback 1975, 304pp, illustrated. the Register. ISBN 978 1-906266-23-3, 254pp, Paperback ISBN 0552097772. Story of McGreal, Stephen. War on Hospital bibliography, index, softback, £9.95, 2011. Nordmark and the armed supply ships of Ships 1914 – 1918. Barnsley, Pen & Chapter 6 cover Repair ships and tugs, the Kriesgsmarine. Includes information on Sword, 2008, ISBN 978 1 84415 858 4, Chapter 7 is RFA Ships. the fleet tanker HMS BULAWAYO. hardback, 272pp, illustrated, bibliography, Koburger Jr, Charles W. Sea Power in the index. Brief reference to RFAs. Falklands, Praeger Publisher, NewYork, Mercantile Navy List and Maritime 1983, ISBN 0 03 069534 1, £na, 186pp, Directory, London. Annual (1850-1940 illustrated, bibliography, index. This book is and 1947-1977). The official list of British very much from an American point-of-view, registered vessels of 1 gross ton and over good chapter on Logistics (Chapter 7) and compiled by the Board of Trade’s Appendix F on the RFA contribution. Registrar-General of Shipping Seamen. Vessels are catalogued under steamships, motor ships and sailing ships are listed Adams | A bibliography of Royal Fleet Auxiliary history | Page 6 of 58 alphabetically by name with official services, bases and establishments, RAF Mitchell W H & Sawyer L A, Empire Ships number, when and where built, basic and Army aviation support. Contains some of World War II Sea Breezes (Liverpool), technical details and owners information is careers information and advertisements. 120pp, illustrated, index, 1969. Details recorded. Not all RFAs, particularly those Although described as ‘a complete work of ‘Empire’ named ships build for or acquired that appear for estuarial and dockyard reference for the professional and by the British Government, includes some duties appear in the List. enthusiast alike – this book omits Dale and Wave class RFAs. information on, eg, rank structures, Milne, Lt Cdr J M RN, Flashing blade insignia, ships’ badges, flags and battle over the seas – The development and honours. history of helicopters in the Royal Navy. Mitchell W H & Sawyer L A, Wartime Liskeard, Maritime Books, (undated), Standard Ships, Vol 2, The Oceans, the 104pp, illustrated (no index), foreword by Forts and the Parks – merchant HRH Prince of Wales, £1.60 ISBN 0 shipbuilding for British Account in North 9506323 2 6, softback.
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