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Official Number: 149743
Class: Stores Carrier
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Builder: Fellows & Co Ltd., Great Yarmouth
Launched: 11 September 1926
Into Service: 1941
Out of service: 1944
Fate: Sank 9 May 1956
Items of historic interest involving this ship: -
Background Data: One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty in WW2 to augment the ships of the RFA
11 September 1926 launched by Fellows & Co Ltd, Great Yarmouth as Yard Nr 316 named FRED EVERARD as a steel spiritsail sailing barge for F. T. Everard & Sons Ltd, London.
October 1926 completed
December 1938 cut down and converted into a motor coaster and fitted with an oil engine.
1941 requisitioned by the Admiralty as a Stores Carrier
26 March 1941 at Scapa Flow alongside HMS HOOD
10 November 1942 at Scapa Flow alongside HMS KING GEORVE V delivering Naval Stores
1944 Returned to her owners
9 May 1956 while on passage from Rochester, Kent to Totnes, Devon with a cargo of cement was in collision with m.v. Wall Brook and sank in the Princes Channel 8 miles off Margate.
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