Subsequent name:                  

Official Number:                     169696                                                              

Class:                                   Armament Stores Carrier

Pennant No:                          A 379

Laid down:                              
Builder:                                 Philip & Son Ltd., Dartmouth

Launched:                             28 September 1943
Into Service:                          22 December 1943
Out of service:                       28 March 1977

Fate:                                     Broken up

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

Background Data: One of a group of nine coasters which are not normally classed as RFA’s, although some of them, on making deep sea voyages, had a proportion of RFA Officers among their complement. She is included here as one of the ancestors of the more modern ammunition ships.

September 1941 ordered

28 September 1943 launched by Philp & Son Ltd., Dartmouth as Yard No: 1050 and named HMS THROSK

22 January 1943 completed at a cost of £94,663. After the War she was based at Priddy’s Hard, Portsmouth Harbour

22 December 1943 Captain E L Combes appointed as Master and Mr H Osborne appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

4 December 1946 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing westwards

28 February 1947 sheltering in Falmouth Bay then passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing westwards

4 March 1947 sailed Belfast for Plymouth

7 March 1947 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing eastwards

15 July 1947 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing westwards

16 July 1947 berthed at Belfast from Plymouth

30 July 1947 sailed Belfast for Plymouth

31 July 1947 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing eastwards

15 August 1947 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing westwards

17 August 1947 berthed at Belfast from Plymouth

22 August 1947 sailed Belfast for Plymouth

24 August 1947 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing eastwards

6 September 1947 arrived at Rosyth from Plymouth

23 January 1948 sailed Rosyth for Plymouth

3 January 1949 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing westwards

1 March 1949 sailed Workington for Plymouth

3 March 1949 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing eastwards

30 May 1949 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing westwards

12 August 1948 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing westward

4 October 1949 arrived Rosyth from Plymouth

9 December 1949 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing westward

18 February 1950 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing eastward

25 February 1950 berthed at Portsmouth from Plymouth

10 March 1950 sailed Portsmouth for Plymouth

10 June 1950 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing eastward

11 September 1950 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing eastward

22 September 1950 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing westward

11 October 1950 sailed Belfast for Plymouth

9 December 1950 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing westwards

15 December 1950 passed the Lloyd’s Signal Station on the Lizard sailing eastwards

2 May 1951 RFA FG certificated Masters loaned to replace HT certificated officers for Mediterranean freighting

18 February 1952 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on Flamborough Head sailing northbound

22 October 1952 sailed from Chatham Dockyard

10 October 1955 at Chatham Dockyard

11 October 1955 passed the Signal Station at Dover sailing west bound for Portsmouth

9 February 1956 passed the Signal Station at Dover sailing east bound

September 1957 register closed

1959 converted with hold stowage and derricks for handing missiles for the guided weapons trial ship HMS GIRDLE NESS

HMS GIRDLE NESS

9 September 1960 from the River Medway berthed on Upnor Pier

12 September 1960 sailed from Upnor Pier into the River Medway returning the same day to Upnor Pier

2 June 1961 at Devonport moved from Plymouth Sound to Bull Point

19 July 1961 at Devonport moved from Plymouth Sound to Ernesettle

20 July 1961 at Devonport moved from No: 7 buoy to Plymouth Sound on RFA FORT LANGLEY

NAV THROSK alongside RFA FORT LANGLEY

from the ANRS Collection

22 July 1961 at Devonport moved from Plymouth Sound on RFA FORT LANGLEY to No: 7 buoy

24 July 1961 at Devonport moved from No: 7 buoy to Plymouth Sound on RFA FORT LANGLEY

31 August 1961 at Devonport moved from No: 2 jetty to Plymouth Sound

12 September 1962 at Devonport moved from Plymouth Sound to Ernesettle

26 September 1962 at Devonport moved from No: 2 jetty on RFA SALVEDA to Ernesettle

26 March 1963 at Devonport moved to Ernsettle having arrived from sea

24 November 1966 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the Medway River

22 November 1974 at Plymouth Sound alongside RFA RESOURCE (2) working cargo

2 December 1974 at Plymouth Sound alongside RFA RESOURCE (2) working cargo

3 December 1974 at Plymouth Sound alongside RFA RESOURCE (2) working cargo

28 March 1977 sold for scrap

12 June 1977 sailed Portsmouth in tow for the breaker’s yard

14 June 1977 arrived Grays, Essex for demolition by T W Ward Ltd.

1982 demolition finally begun. She was the last vessel to be scrapped there before the Yard closed the following year

Notes

Together with her sister NAV KINTERBURY made three voyages to Malta after the loss of NAV BEDENHAM at Gibraltar and before RFA AMHERST was brought into service