HMS Albion (Commando Carrier), HMS Barrosa (astern) and HMS Brighton being refuelled from RFA Tidereach. It was very rare for a ship to be refuelled astern. The refuelling hose being paid out from the tanker and grappled and picked up from the sea by the receiving vessel.
(Admiralty Photograph)
Admiralty Photograph :- HMS Albion (R07), nicknamed "The Old Grey Ghost of the Borneo Coast", was a 22,000 ton Centaur-class light fleet carrier of the Royal Navy seen here during the Indonesian Confrontation 1965 being refuelled by RFA Tidereach
HMS Albion was built at Barrow in Furness and was launched in March 2001 by HRH The Princess Royal. She is affiliated to the City of Chester, and very proud of her 4 battle honours ranging from Algiers 1816 to Dardanelles 1915. The ship's motto is "Fortiler, Fideliter, Feliciter (Boldly...
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