RFA Amherst

Previous name:                         Fort Amherst
Subsequent name:                                                                          

Class:

Pennant No:                             A238

Laid down:
Builder:                                     Blythswood, Scotstoun
Launched:                                16 October 1935
Into Service:                             15 July 1952
Out of service:                          1964
Fate:                                        Broken up

Items of historic interest involving this ship: -

1936 Built for and operated by Furness Withy & Co as the "Fort Amherst"

1951 purchased by the Admiralty as a Naval Armanents Vessel  in replacement of the NAV Bedenham which had exploded at Gibraltar on 27 April 1951.

30 November 1951 Captain C L Doughty RFA appointed as Master

30 March 1953 Mr L Cochrane RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

15 June 1953 One of 6 RFA's at the Coronation Fleet Review.

15 September 1954 Mr A Hemingway DSC RFA (Lieutenant (E) RN Rtd) appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

Took part in Operation Musketeer (Suez Crsis)

24 August 1955 Captain C L Doughty RFA appointed as Master

24 August 1955 Mr A J Fabri RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

16 July 1957 Captain A C Gibson RFA appointed as Master

28 January 1958 Captain N R McLeod RFA appointed as Master

13 June 1959 Captain J Ditchburn RFA appointed as Master

7 October 1959 Mr M J Burgess RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

2 May 1960 Captain A H Tarr RFA appointed as Master

22 June 1960 Mr B Nolan RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

12 June 1961 Captain Alfred Matthews Uglow RFA appointed as Master

11 October 1961 Mr J A MacPherson RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

July 1962 laid up at Devonport

15 October 1964 arrived for breaking up at Antwerp