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    RFA Gold Rover (A271) was a Rover-class small fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) and one of five ships that were designed by the Admiralty...
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    The Rover class is a British ship class of five small fleet tankers, active from 1970 to 2017 with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), the naval auxiliary...
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  • Bayol RFA Beechleaf RFA Belgol RFA Berbice RFA Berta RFA Birchleaf RFA Birchol RFA Bishopdale RFA Bison RFA Blackol RFA Black Ranger RFA Black Rover RFA Blackstone...
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    United Kingdom as part of Task Group 317.3 on 22 July 1975 along with RFAs Gold Rover and Tarbatness to provide auxiliary support for the County-class guided...
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    RFA Lyness RFA Stromness RFA Tarbatness Fort Victoria-class replenishment oiler RFA Fort George Rover-class tankers RFA Black Rover (1973) RFA Gold Rover...
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    aircraft carrier Hermes with, No. 41 (Royal Marine) Commando, and RFA’s Gold Rover, Olwen and Regent, she stood by in Akritori Bay, off Cyprus, supporting...
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  • four elderly people were hospitalised. Royal Fleet Auxiliary Vessel RFA Gold Rover upon reaching the island with the required medical supplies found no...
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    Charlotte on 2 May 2015. Between 12 and 16 October 2015 Lancaster and RFA Gold Rover participated in the bicentennial anniversary commemorations of Napoleon's...
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    relieved by USNS Leroy Grumman on 11 February. In 2015, she refueled RFA Gold Rover in the South Atlantic. In September 2024, she ran aground off Oman while...
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    aircraft carrier HMS Hermes with No. 41 (Royal Marine) Commando and RFA’s Gold Rover, Olna and Regent, she stood by off Cyprus following a Greek junta-sponsored...
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    Radar 996 and was the last ship to conduct a Replenishment at Sea with RFA Gold Rover prior to the latter ship's decommissioning In 2018, Portland began a...
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    agencies in the area. Other ships in the exercise included TTS Nelson and RFA Gold Rover. 5 February 2002 saw Sheffield deployed to the Standing Naval Force...
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  • RFA Grey Rover, RFA Blue Rover, RFA Gold Rover, RFA Black Rover Tide-class replenishment oiler: RFA Tidespring Leaf-class support tankers: RFA Appleleaf...
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    collided with the accompanying tanker RFA Gold Rover. While Scylla suffered only superficial damage, Gold Rover had to have repairs for hull damage.[citation...
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  • Raji Airlines RAJI Pakistan RKM RAK Airways RAKAIR United Arab Emirates RFA Raleigh Flying Service RALEIGH SERVICE United States REX Ram Air Freight...
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  • Amsat-DL. 3 February 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024. "RFA flies eight customers on second flight". RFA (Press release). 23 November 2023. Retrieved 14 December...
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  • Messier, Doug (2022-08-09). "German Launch Providers Isar Aerospace and RFA Eye Maiden Launches in 2023". Parabolic Arc. Retrieved 2022-09-05. Foust...
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    not recovered from the water. His body was washed ashore in a dinghy at Golding Island in 1983. Garcia's wingman, Lieutenant Ricardo Lucero, was also shot...
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  • minesweeper HMS Fittleton, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in the shape of RFA Reliant, RFA Grey Rover and other ships, and the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service. Fleet...
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    named on 20 September 1967 by Queen Elizabeth II, using the same pair of gold scissors her mother and grandmother used to launch Queen Elizabeth and Queen...
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    Gloucester, the anti-aircraft cruiser Calcutta, the destroyer HMS Hasty, RFA Cherryleaf (5,934 GRT) and Dumana (8,427 GRT) an RAF flying boat tender and...
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  • 4 April 2014. Retrieved 26 October 2019. "China-Cambodia Relations". www.rfa.org. Retrieved 5 July 2020. "Troop Cut to Save Money, Deng Says". Los Angeles...
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  • Major Ardale Vautier Golding (1902-1992 ) and their secretaries, Eileen Beryl Morden (Suffolk) and Marguerite Nicolle (Golding), they had left Paris...
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  • 24), and William Thomas (aged 35) were killed while travelling in a Land Rover, which detonated a landmine on track, Brougher Mountain, near Trillick,...
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  • Pinup Girl, Dies at 92". The New York Times. "Cambodian Activist Shot Dead". Rfa.org. Retrieved 29 June 2012. [Maher, Tod; Gill, Bob (2013). The Canadian...
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    for his conduct, receiving both the Thanks of Congress and a Congressional Gold Medal. Alexander Macomb was laid down on 18 February 1942, under a Maritime...
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  • Mashobra on this day, see the entry for 25 May 1940. For the scuttling of RFA Oleander on this day, see the entry for 26 May 1940. "Naval Events, June...
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    River in Mesopotamia (now Iraq). Royal Fleet Auxiliary mine carrier ship RFA Lady Cory-Wright was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel by German...
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    nitrates, chiefly nitrate of soda, in addition to various ores, such as copper, gold and silver. For example, in October 1929 the freighter brought into Tacomea...
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  • mine and sank in the Belfast Lough with the loss of fourteen of her crew. RFA Olna  Royal Fleet Auxiliary World War II: The tanker was bombed and damaged...
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