RFA Antic

Previous name:                    Ant
Subsequent name:                                                                          

Class:                                     Assurance

Pennant No:                          W141 and then A141

Laid down:                            25 November 1942
Builder:                                  Cochrane & Sons, Selby
Launched:                             24 March 1943
Into Service:                          1956
Out of service:                       April 1969
Fate:                                        Sold to Hughes Bolckow for breaking up.

Items of historic interest involving this ship: -

On completion was transferred to the Dutch Navy being returned in 1948.

29 May 1944 took USS Barr (DE576) in tow after she had been torpedoed by U549 and towed her to Casablanca.

17 April 1947 with other tugs stood by RMS Queen Elizabeth after she had run aground on the Brambles Bank, Solent.

26 January 1948 RN manned as a tender to HMS Excellent.

1956 transfered to Portsmouth on RFA conditions.

Between October to December 1956 at Suez assisting British Forces

1959 transfered to Portland then to Rosyth.

4 August 1960 was assisting in getting HMS Vanguard out of Portsmouth Dockyard to the breakers when HMS Vanguard ran aground.

April 1969 laid up at Rosyth

12 November 1969 Sold for scrap to Hughes Bolckow

14 November 1969 towed to Blyth for breaking up by the tug Ironsider