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Welcome to Toys Out Of The Pram an unofficial Royal Fleet Auxiliary site.
Everybody in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary knows the saying
'toys out of the pram'.
'The vessels of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary provide essential logistic support for Royal Navy task groups wherever they deploy around the world.
Whether it is fuel, missiles or food, the Fleet Auxiliaries have it all, ready-to-go. They are the Royal Navy's floating supermarkets. They can also take troops and their equipment to war and provide battle damage repair, as well as embarking flights for anti-submarine and anti-ship warfare, aviation training and front line medical support.
Without the Fleet Auxiliary, the Royal Navy could not achieve the sustained global reach so necessary in UK and coalition operations.
Although part of the Merchant Service, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary is an integral part of the Navy's Order-of-Battle and a vital part of any campaign.
The crews of Fleet Auxiliaries therefore have skills far and beyond their merchant colleagues; including war fighting, damage control and disaster relief.
New ships joining the Royal Fleet Auxiliary are giving it a quantum leap in its capability to supply the Navy on the front line, whilst older vessels continue to prove their worth world-wide.
To transport personnel and equipment to the front line, the seaman that crew the RFAs know that they may have to sail into war zones alongside their military colleagues.
Whatever is on the Royal Navy's shopping list, and wherever it is needed, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary is ready to supply it 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.' (text quoted from RN promotional video)
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary are supporting the Royal Navy with:
Food, stores, and ammunition support are supplied by the RFA Fort boats, RFA Fort George, RFA Fort Victoria, RFA Fort Rosalie, and RFA Fort Austin
Fuelling support is obtained from RFA Fleet tankers RFA Bayleaf, and RFA Orangeleaf, the new wave boats RFA Wave Knight and RFA Wave Ruler, the Rover class tankers RFA Black Rover and RFA Gold Rover, and the 'one stop ships' RFA Fort George and RFA Fort Victoria.
The RFA also provides aviation training support for the Royal Navy with RFA Argus.
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary also provide amphibious support and secure sea transport for army units and their equipment via the LSDA's RFA Largs Bay , RFA Lyme Bay, RFA Mounts Bay, and RFA Cardigan Bay.
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