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The vessel was built as RFA Largs Bay by Swan Hunter in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear. She was named after Largs Bay in Ayrshire , Scotland , and entered service in November 2006. During her career with the RFA, Largs Bay served as the British ship assigned to patrol the Falkland Islands in 2008, and delivered relief supplies following the 2010 Haiti ...
The Bay class was designed as a replacement for the five Round Table-class logistics ships operated by the RFA. [6] Planning for the class began in the 1990s, after the original intent to modernise and extend the service life of three Round Tables ran into problems with extensive corrosion and problems implementing new safety standards. [7]
Largs Bay may mean: Largs, Scotland, and its associated bay, Largs Bay; Largs Bay, South Australia, a suburb, beach and jetty; RFA Largs Bay, a ship
Largs bay is bounded to the north by Walcot and Warwick Street, to the south by Wills, Hargrave and Union Streets and in the west and east by Gulf St Vincent and the centre of the Port River respectively. It is adjacent to the suburbs of Largs North, Peterhead, Port Adelaide and Semaphore. It is essentially a residential suburb, with a minor ...
On 28 December 2023, Khai Cowley was killed by a Great White shark while surfing at Ethel Wreck Beach, near Marion Bay on the south west coast of Yorke Peninsula. [5] On 2 January 2025, 28 year old Lance Appleby was killed by a shark, while surfing at Granites Beach near Streaky Bay (the same location as the October 2023 attack). [6]
Together with White and her band, Rey put on numerous shows entitled Ron White Presents: Margo Rey Live, hosted by White, and with guest appearances that included John Oates. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] At the end of 2012, Rey accompanied saxophonist Dave Koz as a guest singer on his "Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour 2012" tour between Thanksgiving ...
Shortly after Largs Bay was handed over to the RFA, Swan Hunter was stripped from the project, with BAE taking full responsibility for the class on 13 June 2006. [7] [10] Lyme Bay was towed to BAE's shipyard in Govan for completion, departing on 16 July and arriving on the River Clyde on 22 July. [11] [12] The ship was the last to be built on ...
In December 1955 Dutton returned with wife Emma to England on the SS Largs Bay intending to live there. He declared in a 1955 article in the Walsall Observer on life in Australia, that "with the stout help of a dear wife, an interesting life has been savoured to the full. We look back with affection to England and after 35 years returned there ...