Sea Services and Careers

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Sea Services and Careers
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• Royal Navy and merchant navy
• RFA
• HM Coastguard
• HM Customs and Excise
• Fishing fleet

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Royal Navy and Merchant Navy

• Royal Navy is the UKs senior service, serving
  around the world in times of conflict and
  peacetime.
• The Merchant Navy denotes ships owned and
  operated by civilian companies, comprising cargo,
  oil carriers, and passenger liners.

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The Royal Navy

• The UKs senior service.
• Serving on ships and shore bases.
• Officers and ratings
• Different branches
• Engineering
• Warfare
• Logistics
• Medical
• PT
• Regulating
• Fleet Air Arm

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Merchant Navy

• Civilian ships
• Begin with MV
• Merchant Vessel
• Ferries
• Cargo ships
• Cruise ships
• Oil carriers

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Royal Fleet Auxiliary

• The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is a component of
  the Naval Service
• Its main function supplying Royal Navy vessels
  with food and supplies, as well as repairing
  ships and refuelling.
• RFA personnel are civilians of the MoD civil
  service who wear Merchant Navy-style uniforms and
  rank insignia.
• RFA vessels are manned predominantly by the
  civilians, along with Royal Navy personnel to
  perform specialised functions, such as operating
  and maintaining helicopters or manning hospital
  facilities.

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• Fort Victoria and Fort George combine the
  functions of fleet oilers and stores ships.
• Large and adaptable
• Equipped with an expansive flight deck, supported
  by hangars for three Sea King-sized helicopters. 
  This class can embark and support both
  anti-submarine helicopters and troop-carrying Sea
  King Mk4 helicopters, which can transfer large
  amounts of stores to other ships.
• For dual-purpose replenishment rigs are fitted
  amidships, enabling transfer of fuel and stores
  to two ships simultaneously.

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• RFA Argus was acquired for the RAF during the
  Falklands conflict and converted by Harland and
  Wolff, of Belfast, before being accepted into
  service in 1988.
• Her primary role is to provide specialist
  aviation training facilities which is why more
  than two thirds of her length is given over to a
  flight deck to accommodate any of the Royal
  Navys helicopters.
• As a logistic ship she can be adapted to
  transport large amounts of equipment very quickly
  which was exploited during the deployment of
  Britains contribution to the UN Protection Force
  in the former Yugoslavia.
• Argus is also equipped with a hospital complex
  including two operating theatres and beds for 96
  casualties.

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• RFA Diligences role is to provide forward repair
  and maintenance facilities to ships and
  submarines operating away from their home ports.
• The ship is fitted with workshops to cater for a
  wide range of repair and maintenance
  requirements.
• She is also equipped to provide auxiliary
  electrical power, fuel, fresh water, and water in
  her forward support role.

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HM Coastguard
Safer Lives, Safer Ships, Cleaner Seas.

• HM Coastguard is an on-call emergency
  organisation responsible for the initiation and
  co-ordination of all civilian maritime SAR within
  the UK Maritime Search and Rescue Region.
• This includes the mobilisation, organisation and
  tasking of adequate resources to respond to
  persons either in distress at sea, or to persons
  at risk of injury or death on the cliffs or
  shoreline of the United Kingdom.
• The objectives of HM Coastguard are as follows
• to respond to people in distress or potential
  distress at sea.
• to respond in conjunction with the MCA's
  Counter-Pollution and Response Branch to reports
  of actual or potential threats of maritime
  pollution
• to provide safety education for professional and
  amateur mariners, as well as young people in
  schools.

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HM Customs and Excise

• Her Majesty's Customs and Excise (HMCE) was,
  until April 2005, a department of the British
  Government in the UK. It was responsible for the
  collection of Value added tax (VAT), Customs
  Duties, Excise Duties, and other indirect taxes.
• It was also responsible for managing the import
  and export of goods and services into the UK.
• HMCE was merged with the Inland Revenue (which
  was responsible for the administration and
  collection of direct taxes) to form a new
  department, HM Revenue and Customs, with effect
  from 18 April 2005.
• HM Customs and Excise officers guarded the
  borders of the United Kingdom from smugglers.
  Customs officers have authority throughout the
  country, including the powers of entry to
  premises and of arrest.

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Fishing Fleet

• A fishing fleet is the collective name for a
  group of fishing vessels all from the same port,
  fishing for the same catch, or belonging to the
  same country.
• In 2005, UK vessels landed directly into non-UK
  ports 216 thousand tonnes of sea fish with a
  value of 115 million.

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Test

• Match these services with their definitions
• Royal Navy
• Merchant Navy
• Royal Fleet Auxiliary
• HM Coastguard
• HM Customs and Excise
• Fishing Fleet

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• Collective name for a group of fishing vessels
  from the same country or port
• Service responsible for keeping the Navy
  supplied.
• Service responsible for helping people at sea,
  and raising awareness.
• Responsible for collecting taxes and duties, and
  stopping smuggling.
• The UKs senior military service.
• The service comprising of civilian ships such as
  cruise liners and oil carriers.