RFA C614 after being sold out of Service and renamed Commodity
Subsequent name: COMMODITY
Official Number: 168464
Class: Coaling Lighter
Pennant No: X114 / A113
Laid down: 11 June 1942
Builder: Yarwood, Northwhich
Launched: 22 February 1943
Into Service: July 1943
Out of service: 1956
Fate: Broken up 1969
Items of historic interest involving this ship: –
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
24 February 1943 launched by W.J. Yarwood & Sons (1938) Ltd, Northwich as Yard Nr: 713 named C614 for the Naval Stores Department
July 1943 completed
22 June 1943 Captain Robert Smith RFA appointed Master
9 July 1943 sailed Ellesmere Port
10 July 1943 arrived Campbletown
16 July 1943 sailed Campletown arriving at Ayr the same day
17 July 1943 sailed Ayr
29 July 1943 sailed Partington
31 July 1943 arrived at Glasgow
5 August 1943 sailed Glasgow
14 August 1943 arrived at Ayr
19 August 1943 sailed Ayr and arrived at Campbletown the same day
24 August 1943 sailed Campbletown and arrived at Ayr the same day
26 August 1943 sailed from Ayr to Campbleton arriving the same day
31 August 1943 sailed from Campbletown to Ary arriving the same day
3 September 1943 sailed from Ayr to Campbleton arriving the same day
9 September 1943 sailed from Campbletown to Glasgow arriving the same day
10 September 1943 sailed from Glasgow to Ayr arriving the same day
11 September 1943 sailed from Ayr to Campbleton arriving the same day
15 September 1943 sailed from Campletown
16 September 1943 arrived at Glasgow
17 September 1943 sailed from Glasgow
18 September 1943 arrived at Londonderry
21 September 1943 sailed from Londonderry
23 September 1943 arrived at Partington
25 September 1943 sailed from Partington
26 September 1943 arrived at Glasgow
1 October 1943 sailed from Glasgow
10 October 1943 arrived at Ayr
13 October 1943 sailed from Ayr
18 October 1943 sailed from Campbletown to Glasgow arriving the same day
20 October 1943 sailed from Glasgow
1 November 1943 arrived at Partington
2 November 1943 sailed from Partington
4 November 1943 arrived at Glasgow
2 January 1944 Mr Alexander A Brown RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer
3 July 1944 berthed at Campletown
8 July 1944 sailed from Campletown
11 July 1944 sailed from Glasgow
16 July 1944 sailed from Tobermoray
11 August 1944 sailed from Greenock
12 August 1944 sailed from Glasgow
21 August 1944 sailed from Belfast
24 August 1944 sailed from Ayr
28 August 1944 sailed from Belfast
31 August 1944 sailed from Ayr
2 September 1944 sailed from Londonderry
5 September 1944 sailed from Ardrossan
7 September 1944 sailed from Londonderry
9 September 1944 sailed from Glasgow
14 September 1944 sailed from Londonderry
19 September 1944 sailed from Preston
22 September 1944 sailed from Londonderry
28 September 1944 sailed from Preston
7 October 1944 sailed from Londonderry
11 October 1944 sailed from Preston
16 October 1944 sailed from Londonderry
26 October 1944 sailed from Preston
29 October 1944 sailed from Douglas, Isle of Man
31 October 1944 sailed from Maryport, Cumberland
11 November 1944 sailed from Loch Ewe
16 November 1944 at Ayr Chief Engineer Alexander A Brown RFA discharged dead having been accidentally drowned. He is buried in Grange Cemetery, West Kirby in Section B Grave No: 649
19 November 1944 sailed from Ayr
20 November 1944 sailed from Maryport, Cumberland
30 November 1944 sailed from Londonderry
14 December 1944 sailed from Preston
21 December 1944 sailed from Londonderry
23 December 1944 sailed from Ayr
29 December 1944 sailed from Campletown
4 January 1945 sailed from Ayr
11 January 1945 berthed at Campletown
26 January 1945 Captain George N Stokoe RFA appointed Master
12 August 1945 sailed Milford Haven to Penzance arriving 16 August 1945
17 August 1945 sailed Penzance to Devonport arriving 18 August 1945
23 August 1945 sailed Devonport to Newlyn arriving 25 August 1945
26 August 1945 sailed Newlyn to Birkenhead arriving 29 August 1945
1 September 1945 sailed Birkenhead to Belfast arriving 2 September 1945
4 September 1945 sailed Belfast to Campbletown arriving the same day
5 September 1945 sailed Campbeltown to Greenock arriving the same day
16 November 1945 Mr William H G Rogers RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer
Chief Engineer Officer William H G Rogers RFA
17 January 1946 at Greenock
28 December 1946 berthed at Dunston, River Tyne at the same time as RFA BRITISH LADY
30 December 1946 berthed at Dunston, River Tyne
31 December 1946 sailed from the River Tyne for Portsmouth
16 February 1947 arrived at the River Tyne from Portsmouth berthing at Dunston
23 October 1947 arrived at the River Tyne from Chatham berthing at Dunston
3 January 1948 arrived at the River Tyne from Chatham berthing at Dunston
21 January 1948 arrived at the River Tyne from Chatham
27 January 1948 berthed at No: 7 Tier, South Shields, River Tyne
12 March 1948 berthed at Dunston, River Tyne
24 August 1948 sailed from the River Tyne for Portsmouth
25 February 1949 arrived River Tyne from Sheerness
1 March 1949 at Dunston, River Tyne
15 March 1949 arrived at Hartlepool with a cargo of refuge
4 April 1949 berthed at Dunston, River Tyne
30 April 1949 arrived at Blyth from Chatham
11 May 1949 arrived at Blyth from Sheerness
23 May 1949 sailed from Blyth
14 June 1949 sailed from Blyth for Sheerness
3 September 1949 sailed Blyth for London
9 September 1949 berthed at Blyth from Chatham
12 September 1949 the Shields Daily News reported …
4 October 1949 sailed from Blyth
7 December 1949 arrived River Tyne from Sheerness
11 December 1949 sailed from the River Tyne
13 December 1949 sailed Hartlepool with a cargo of coke
30 December 1949 arrived at Blyth from Sheerness
March 1956 on the disposal list at Sheerness
May 1956 sold to F T Everard and Sons Limited and renamed COMMODITY
5 July 1956 notice of change of name given in The Times of this day to ‘Commodity’
1957 rebuilt as a tanker – tonnages now 470 grt 225 nrt 570 dwt and dimensions now 166’03” x 28’03” x 10’05½”
May 1969 purchased by Belcon Shipping & Trading Co for breaking up
28 May 1969 arrived Bruges and resold to Jacques Bakker en Zonen
August 1969 demolition begun