Subsequent name:

Official Number:                          169605                                                                     

Class:                                          Stores Lighter

Pennant No:

Laid down:
Builder:                                        Rowhedge Iron Works Co Ltd, Rowhedge
Launched:                                   1 September 1943
Into Service:                                1943
Out of service:                             1963
Fate:

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

1 September 1943  launched by  Rowhedge Iron Works Co Ltd, Rowhedge as Yard Nr:      named C619 for the Naval Stores Department and signed on a crew. Captain Henry Albert Lego RFA as Master

Captain Henry Albert Lego RFA

1943 completed

12 November 1943 at Portsmouth

25 September 1943 at London registered as C619 in the Register reference 243/1943

1963 on the disposal list at Portsmouth

July 1965 reported lying in H.G. Pounds yard in Portsmouth for demolition

22 July 1972 entry in the Register closed