rfa gold rover

In support of USS OSCAR AUSTIN

Battleship USS IOWA also alongside.

FS Dixmude at rear

In company HMS LANCASTER

RFA Gold Rover - Portland

Not sure what the occasion was. A few names: L-R ?.?.?,? AB Tug Wilson, Chief Cook Graham gartshore, Stwd Lee McWatt, Stwd Paul Comish and ?

Gold Rover back in Bidston Graving Dock after several weeks in Cammell Lairds main yard. I believe they have moved her back and forth from this dock to Lairds about eight times during the course of her refit. It must have cost a small fortune when you consider each move entails the use of three tugs

This piece of equipment is about midships on the foredeck. Its covered in tarps but there is a hook protruding at the top. Anyone any ideas?

Gold Rover now has RFA crew on board so I think she will be finished with Birkenhead very soon.

Another of 1st Officer P D Homan's stickers. RASON being the acronym for Remain At Sea Overnight ' an instruction often received late on a Thursday afternoon after the Portland Thursday War when all the other players were berthing alongside.

RFA Gold Rover being towed stern first from Birkenhead dock system upriver to Cammell Laird's yard to continue her ongoing refit

RFA Gold Rover emerging stern first from Alfred Locks, Birkenhead

RFA Gold Rover in Alfred Basin, waiting for a level.

RFA Gold Rover in Cammell Laird's No 5 Drydock on 26/9/10. That day they took her out of the dock, held her stationary in the Mersey for a couple of hours with four tugs in attendance, then put her back in the dry dock. Today, they took her out again and brought her into Birkenhead dock system, and