No Image

Currently

Available

Official Number:                     149885

Builder:                                  Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd., Newcastle              

Launched:                              28 June 1927

Into Service:                           1939

Out of service:                        1945

Fate:                                       1953 Broken up

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

Background Data:  One of a group of additional ships requisitioned during WW2 by the Admiralty to augment the ships of the RFA

Career Data:

28 June 1927 launched by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd., Low Walker as Yard Nr: 1018 named El Aleto for Lobitos Oilfields Ltd., (C T Bowring & Co Ltd., Managers) Liverpool

August 1927 completed

27 October 1938 at  Aruba

3  April 1939 sailed La Libertad for Rio Grande

!939 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a tanker and later served as an escort oiler – name unchanged

11 October 1939 sailed Port Said in convoy Blue .4 to Gibraltar arriving 21 October 1939. RFA ARNDALE was also part of this convoy

22 October 1939 sailed Gibraltar in escorted convoy HG4 to Devonport arriving 29 October 1939 with a cargo of FFO. RFA ARNDALE was also part of this convoy

26 November 1939 sailed Liverpool for Trinidad in escorted convoy OB42 – the convoy dispersed on 1 December 1939

24 May 1943 sailed Liverpool as an Escort Oiler in escorted convoy ONZ186 to New York arriving 7 June 1943

15 June 1943 sailed New York as an Escort Oiler in escorted convoy HX244 to Liverpool arriving 30 June 1943

7 August 1943 sailed New York as an Escort Oiler in escorted convoy HX251 to Liverpool arriving 27 August 1943

5 October 1943 sailed New York as an Escort Oiler in escorted convoy HX260 to Liverpool arriving 20 October 1943

31 October 1943 sailed Liverpool as an Escort Oiler in escorted convoy ONZ209 to New York arriving 17 November 1943

31 December 1943 sailed New York as an Escort Oiler in escorted convoy ONZ218 to New York arriving 18 January 1944

29 March 1944 sailed Halifax as an Escort Oiler in escorted convoy SC156 together with three other Escort Oilers – Beanconoil, Ena and Lucellum to Liverpool arriving 13 April 1944

19 May 1944 sailed Liverpool as an Escort Oiler in escorted convoy ONZ237 to New York arriving 3 June 1944

1 June 1953 arrived Faslane for demolition by Metal Industries (Salvage) Ltd