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The Right Way To Put Out A Fire (Finally)

4th December 2018 Æthelberht 0

In March 2013 I was appointed to RFA Fort Austin. Within NATO she is classified as an AFSH, that’s to say a combat stores ship with the necessary facilities on board to embark a helicopter. [more…]

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Still Not The Right Way To Put Out A Fire

20th November 2018 Æthelberht 0

You may remember some months back I related a story of my first fire exercise sailing under the Red Duster. I was somewhat unimpressed having come from a different seafaring outfit where these things were [more…]

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The Wrong Way to Put Out a Fire

8th June 2018 Æthelberht 0

When I left the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in 2015 I joined a shipping company operating out of Barrow-in-Furness. It was a very small outfit which specialised in carrying nuclear cargo between Europe, the US and [more…]

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