RFA C633 after being sold out of service and renamed ‘City’

Subsequent name:                   City

Official Number:                       180582

Class:

Pennant No:                            X101 / A102

Laid down:
Builder:                                   Yarwood, Northwich
Launched:                                22 March 1945   
Into Service:                             August 1945
Out of service:                          1956
Fate:                                        Broken up July 1969

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

7 July 1945 Captain Frederick W Bowley RFA appointed as Master – discharged having been injured – broken wrist on 27 September 1945

23 October 1945 Captain F Ashcroft RFA appointed as Master

3 March 1947 Mr E Scholes RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

24 March 1948 berthed on No 7 Tier, River Tyne, South Shields

30 May 1948 berthed at Newcastle Quay, River Tyne

29 July 1948 berthed at Dunston, River Tyne

27 September 1948 Captain Frank Ashcroft RFA appointed as Master

6 April 1949 sailed Blyth

13 April 1949 arrived on the River Tyne from Sheerness

14 April 1949 sailed the River Tyne for Devonport

22 April 1949 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

4 May 1949 at Great Nore alongside HMS SUPERB delivering Naval Stores

15 May 1949 arrived at Blyth from Chatham

28 May 1949 arrived on the River Tyne from Sheerness

1 June 1949 sailed the River Tyne for Chatham

18 August 1949 sailed from Blyth

19 October 1949 arrived at Blyth

9 November 1949 arrived at Blyth from Sheerness

11 November 1949 Mr William H G Rogers RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

Chief Engineer Officer William H G Rogers RFA

14 March 1956 offered for sale in the Times newspaper

1956 sold to F T Everard & Sons Ltd, The Wharf,  Greenhithe, Kent

5 July 1956 notice of change of name given in The Times of this day to ‘City’

July 1969 Broken up at Newport