What branches are in the RFA?
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What branches are in the RFA?
The trades/branches within the RFA are: Deck (Navigation/Warfare/Seamanship); Marine Engineering; Systems Engineering (Electrical); Communications Information Systems and Logistics.
Why should I join the RFA?
Job satisfaction Doing a job that has a significant impact on our nation’s defence capabilities comes with real responsibility. It’s not easy – you’ll be challenged every day – but being part of an RFA bring a team spirit and job satisfaction that you won’t experience anywhere else.
Is RFA Navy?
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is a naval auxiliary fleet owned by the UK’s Ministry of Defence. It provides vital logistical and operational support to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. They are a uniformed civilian branch of the Royal Navy staffed by British merchant sailors.
How many ships are in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary?
| Royal Fleet Auxiliary | |
|---|---|
| Size | 1,830 personnel 373,800 tonnes |
| RFA Headquarters | Leach Building, Whale Island, Portsmouth, England, UK |
| Colours | Blue and gold |
| Fleet | 11 vessels – 6 Replenishment oilers 1 Multi-role replenishment ship 3 Landing Ship Dock (Auxiliary) 1 Aviation Training and Casualty Receiving Ship |
Royal Fleet Auxiliary. The civilian support branch of the Royal Navy, providing vital logistical and operational support to military operations. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) delivers worldwide logistic and operational support to Royal Navy military operations.
What did the Royal Fleet Air Force do in WW2?
After 1945, the RFA became the Royal Navy’s main source of support in the many conflicts that the Navy was involved in. The RFA performed important service to the Far East Fleet off Korea from 1950 until 1953, when sustained carrier operations were again mounted in Pacific waters.
What is a Royal Navy Bay-class ship used for?
Typically one Bay-class is also assigned as a permanent ‘mothership’ for Royal Navy mine countermeasures vessels in the Persian Gulf . The unique support ship in the fleet is the aviation training ship Argus, a converted roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) container ship. She is tasked with peacetime aviation training and support.
What is new at the Royal Navy RFA Fort Victoria?
RFA Fort Victoria is almost 30 years old but has been well maintained and consistently upgraded and to meet new legislation. She conducted her first RAS (L) with HMS Queen Elizabeth during the October 2020 GROUPEX but a solid stores RAS with the carrier still needs to be rehearsed before the operational deployment in May.