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RFA Olwen
Two ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA ''Olwen'': * RFA ''Olwen'' was an oiler launched in 1917 as . She was renamed RFA ''Olwen'' in 1937 and was sold in 1947. * was an oiler launched in 1964 as RFA ''Olynthus''. She was renamed RFA ''Olwen'' in 1967 and was sold in 2001. {{DEFAULTSORT:Olwen, Rfa Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Fleet Auxiliary
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is a naval auxiliary fleet owned by the UK's Ministry of Defence. It provides logistical and operational support to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. The RFA ensures the Royal Navy is supplied and supported by providing fuel and stores through replenishment at sea, transporting Royal Marines and British Army personnel, providing medical care and transporting equipment and essentials around the world. In addition the RFA acts independently providing humanitarian aid, counter piracy and counter narcotic patrols together with assisting the Royal Navy in preventing conflict and securing international trade. They are a uniformed civilian branch of the Royal Navy staffed by British merchant sailors. RFA personnel are civilian employees of the Ministry of Defence and members of the Royal Naval Reserve and Sponsored Reserves. Although RFA personnel wear Merchant Navy rank insignia with naval uniforms, they are part of the Royal Navy. RFA vessels are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RFA British Light (1917)
RFA may refer to: Government and private organizations * Radio Free Asia, a private news broadcaster and publisher in East Asia, funded in part by the U.S. government * Renewable Fuels Agency, a former UK renewable fuel regulatory agency * Renewable Fuels Association, a body representing the U.S. ethanol industry * République fédérale d'Allemagne, the French acronym for the Federal Republic of Germany * Rocket Factory Augsburg, a German New Space start-up located in Augsburg. Military * Royal Field Artillery, a unit of the British Army from 1899 to 1924 * Royal Fleet Auxiliary, a civilian-crewed fleet owned by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence Sports * Restricted free agent, in professional sports * Resurrection Fighting Alliance, a former mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States * Rugby Fives Association, the governing body for the sport of Rugby Fives Other uses * Radiofrequency ablation, a medical procedure in which tissue is burned away usin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil Tanker
An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers: crude tankers and product tankers. Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined crude oil from its point of extraction to refineries. Product tankers, generally much smaller, are designed to move refined products from refineries to points near consuming markets. Oil tankers are often classified by their size as well as their occupation. The size classes range from inland or coastal tankers of a few thousand metric tons of deadweight (DWT) to the mammoth ultra large crude carriers (ULCCs) of . Tankers move approximately of oil every year.UNCTAD 2006, p. 4. Second only to pipelines in terms of efficiency,Huber, 2001: 211. the average cost of transport of crude oil by tanker amounts to only US. Some specialized types of oil tankers have evolved. One of these is the naval replenishment oiler, a tanker which can fuel a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
