Название: Ready for Anything: The Royal Fleet Auxiliary 1905-1950
Автор: Geoff Puddefoot
Издательство: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848320744
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 19,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Set up in August 1905, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary unofficial motto: Ready for Anything was originally a logistic support organisation, Admiralty-owned but run on civilian lines, comprising a miscellaneous and very unglamorous collection of colliers, store ships and harbour craft. This book charts its rise in fleet strength, capability and importance, through two world wars and a technical revolution, until the time when naval operations became simply impossible without it. Its earliest tasks were mainly freighting supplying the Royal Navy s worldwide network of bases but in wartime fleets were required to spend much longer at sea and the RFA had to develop techniques of underway replenishment.