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Ready for Anything: the Royal Fleet Auxilliary from 1905 to the Korean War: The Royal Fleet Auxiliary from 1905 to the Korean War - Hardcover

Puddefoot, Geoff

 
9781848320741: Ready for Anything: the Royal Fleet Auxilliary from 1905 to the Korean War: The Royal Fleet Auxiliary from 1905 to the Korean War
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1848320744 ISBN 13: 9781848320741
Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Set up in August 1905, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary unofficial motto: Ready for Anything was originally a logistic support organization, Admiralty-owned but run on civilian lines, comprising a miscellaneous and very unglamorous collection of colliers, store ships and harbor 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. This did not come to full fruition until the British Pacific Fleet operated alongside the Americans in 1944-45, but by then the RFA had already pioneered many of the procedures involved.This book combines a history of the service, including many little-known wartime operations, with data on the ships, and a portrait of life in the service gleaned from personal accounts and recollections. Half way between a civilian and a military service, the RFA has never received the attention it deserves, but this book throws a long-overdue spotlight on its achievements.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

GEOFF PUDDEFOOT is a freelance writer and journalist, whose work includes both historical novels and non-fiction. Two previous books cover aspects of RFA history: No Sea Too Rough, published in 2007, told the story of the RFA during the Falklands War; and The Fourth Force (2009) covered the post-1945 era in general.

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Verlag
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1848320744
ISBN 13 
9781848320741
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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