RFA C653

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Official Number:                   181893                                                                        

Class:                                     Lubricating Oil Lighter

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Laid down:                             1948
Builder:                                   Rowhedge Iron Works Co Ltd, Rowhedge
Launched:                              11 November 1947 
Into Service:                            April 1948
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Background Data:   Naval Stores harbour craft were usually allocated a number bearing the prefix C. This descended from the days when the Coaling Officer operated the fuelling craft and many of these craft were operated by the Naval Stores Department under the Director of Stores (Navy) C numbers were allocated to craft such as dumb barges, coal lighters, dumb coal lighters, self-propelled diesel lighters, self-propelled stores lighters, launches and tugs of which a number were registered as RFA’s and wore the ‘green stripe’ that indicated the Naval Stores Department

11 November 1947  launched by  Rowhedge Iron Works Co Ltd, Rowhedge as Yard Nr     named  C653 for the Naval Stores Department

April 1948 completed

1968 believed sold out of service

19 July 2007 was at Gravesend, Kent