First, there’s the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). Formed in 1905 and trusted ever since with the replenishment of the Royal Navy at sea – and other tasks nowadays, including amphibious warfare ...

team is heading to the South Atlantic island of St Helena to survey the wreck of a tanker sunk by a German U-boat in World War Two. RFA (Royal Fleet Auxiliary) vessel Darkdale became the first ...

Stephen Burke with his grandfather George Burke’s First World War watch More than a century ... George joined the RFA in April 1916 and saw action in the Battle of the Somme and the Ypres ...