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Official Number:                       169663

Pennant Nr:                     B 504

Laid down:

Builder:                                   Barnes-Duluth Shipbuilding Co, Duluth, Minnesota

Launched:                               28 April 1943

Into Service:                            October 1943

Out of service:                         1946

Fate:                                      1 February 1962 broken up

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

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

Career Data:

28 April 1943 launched by Barnes-Duluth Shipbuilding Co., Duluth, Minnesota as Yard Nr: 12 named Loma Novia for the US WSA

October 1943 completed and bare boat chartered by the MoWT, placed under Management of C Rowbotham & Sons, London and requisitioned for Admiralty service as an Oiler

7 April 1944 at Roseneath, Scotland alongside USS Chemung loading from her gasoline cargo

8 April 1944 at Roseneath, Scotland cast off from USS Chemung

1 August 1945 at Manus Naval Base, Admiralty Islands

1945 transferred to Anglo-Saxon Petroleum – name unchanged

1946 purchased by China Tanker Co Ltd., Shanghai and renamed Yung Fu

1949 owners became China Tanker Co Ltd., Kaohsiung – name unchanged

1959 owners became China Merchants Steam Navigation Co Ltd., Kaohsiung – name unchanged

1 February 1962 arrived Keelung for demolition by Formosan ship breakers

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1. Served with the British Pacific Fleet Train – hence the B-Pennant Nr.