Subsequent name:                        SEAMILL

Official Number:                            169790                                                                                

Class:                                            Stores Lighter

Pennant No:

Laid down:
Builder:
Launched:                                     20 February 1943
Into Service:                                  1943
Out of service:                               May 1980
Fate:                                              Sold out of service

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

20 February 1943  launched by Jas Pollock, Sons & Co Ltd., Faversham as Yard Nr: 1805  named C616 for the Naval Stores Department

1943 completed

23 February 1947 put into Dover for shelter – sailed the next day

29 August 1950 at Chatham Dockyard in No: 2 Dock

14 September 1950 at Chatham Dockyard on LC16

9 November 1950 sailed from Chatham Dockyard

26 March 1952 at Stangate Creek, Sheerness alongside HMS PLYMN delivering Naval Stores

21 April 1952 at Stangate Creek, Sheerness alongside HMS PLYMN delivering Naval Stores

1 May 1952 at Chatham alongside HMS CAMPANIA delivering Naval Stores

2 May 1952 at Chatham a further visit alongside HMS CAMPANIA delivering Naval Stores

5 May 1952 at Chatham a further visit alongside HMS CAMPANIA delivering Naval Stores

8 May 1952 at Stangate Creek, Sheerness alongside HMS PLYNN delivering Naval Stores

30 May 1952 at Chatham a further visit alongside HMS CAMPANIA delivering Naval Stores

May 1953 diesel store lighter based at Chatham Dockyard

3 April 1954 taken out from No: 7 dock in Chatham Dockyard

16 December 1955 in Chatham Dockyard entered No: 6 dock

7 March 1956 in Chatham Dockyard alongside HMS MARINER

2 August 1956 entered Chatham Dockyard from the River Medway

7 August 1956 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

9 June 1958 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

18 December 1958 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

23 December 1958 entered Chatham Dockyard from the River Medway

29 December 1958 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

19 February 1959 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

16 March 1959 entered Chatham Dockyard from the River Medway

17 March 1959 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

19 March 1959 entered Chatham Dockyard from the River Medway

26 August 1959 entered Chatham Dockyard from the River Medway

2 September 1959 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

4 January 1960 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

8 September 1960 undocked from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

5 October 1960 RFA FRESHBROOK rebeathed in Chatham Dockyard on RFA C616

13 July 1961 at Chatham Dockyard in No: 7 dock

25 July 1961 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

22 August 1961 entered Chatham Dockyard from the River Medway

28 August 1961 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

18 April 1962 entered Chatham Dockyard from the River Medway

26 July 1962 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

28 March 1963 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

12 August 1963 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

2 September 1963 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

12 September 1963 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

31 January 1964 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

4 March 1964 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway returning later the same day

5 March 1964 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway for passage to Harwich

28 November 1964 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

7 January 1965 entered Chatham Dockyard from the River Medway

11 January 1965 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

25 January 1965 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway for London

3 June 1965 entered Chatham Dockyard from the River Medway

9 June 1965 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway for London Docks

20 December 1965 entered Chatham Dockyard from the River Medway

30 December 1965 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

24 February 1966 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway for passage to Harwich

23 December 1966 entered Chatham Dockyard from the River Medway

12 January 1967 sailed from Chatham Dockyard for Harwich

9 February 1967 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

15 February 1968 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

3 January 1969 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

28 April 1970 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway to a buoy to swing her compass and then returned to the Dockyard

15 January 1973 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

12 March 1973 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

28 August 1973 entered Chatham Dockyard dry dock No: 4 – from the River Medway

8 February 1974 sailed from Chatham Dockyard into the River Medway

1 March 1974 entered Chatham Dockyard from the River Medway

May 1980 purchased by Elliot Diving Co.,  Ardrossan and renamed SEAMILL

2017 offered for sale as a houseboat moored at Rochester, Kent

Houseboat Seamill