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The answer to that is buy 3 Tide class tankers instead of 2 so there'd be enough tankers to to support 2 carrier task forces at all times.

Furthermore, all three ships should be manned by a reformed Royal Australian Fleet Auxiliary (RAFA) rather than the RAN. IOTL HMAS Supply (ex-Tide Austral) was built for the RAN, but was operated by the British RFA from her completion in March 1955 to September 1962 when she was commissioned into the RAN. According to Jane's 1969-70 she had a crew of 200. If she'd been in the RAFA instead of the RAN the 200 men saved would have gone a long way towards having an extra destroyer or frigate in commission. E.g. by retaining Anzac to a fully-operational warship and keeping a Type 15 in commission as the training ship. Of they'd have gone some of the way to upgrading Sydney into a fully operational aircraft carrier, because according to Jane's 1969-70 she had a crew of 608 and Melbourne had a crew of 1,354.

<blockquote data-quote="NOMISYRRUC" data-source="post: 766479" data-attributes="member: 2134">The answer to that is buy 3 Tide class tankers instead of 2 so there'd be enough tankers to to support 2 carrier task forces at all times. Furthermore, all three ships should be manned by a reformed Royal Australian Fleet Auxiliary (RAFA) rather than the RAN. IOTL HMAS Supply (ex-Tide Austral) was built for the RAN, but was operated by the British RFA from her completion in March 1955 to September 1962 when she was commissioned into the RAN. According to Jane's 1969-70 she had a crew of 200. If she'd been in the RAFA instead of the RAN the 200 men saved would have gone a long way towards having an extra destroyer or frigate in commission. E.g. by retaining Anzac to a fully-operational warship and keeping a Type 15 in commission as the training ship. Of they'd have gone some of the way to upgrading Sydney into a fully operational aircraft carrier, because according to Jane's 1969-70 she had a crew of 608 and Melbourne had a crew of 1,354.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NOMISYRRUC, post: 766479, member: 2134"] The answer to that is buy 3 Tide class tankers instead of 2 so there'd be enough tankers to to support 2 carrier task forces at all times. Furthermore, all three ships should be manned by a reformed Royal Australian Fleet Auxiliary (RAFA) rather than the RAN. IOTL HMAS Supply (ex-Tide Austral) was built for the RAN, but was operated by the British RFA from her completion in March 1955 to September 1962 when she was commissioned into the RAN. According to Jane's 1969-70 she had a crew of 200. If she'd been in the RAFA instead of the RAN the 200 men saved would have gone a long way towards having an extra destroyer or frigate in commission. E.g. by retaining Anzac to a fully-operational warship and keeping a Type 15 in commission as the training ship. Of they'd have gone some of the way to upgrading Sydney into a fully operational aircraft carrier, because according to Jane's 1969-70 she had a crew of 608 and Melbourne had a crew of 1,354. [/QUOTE]

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