C641 after being sold out of service and renamed Candourity

Subsequent name:              CANDOURITY

Official Number:                  180837

Class:                                  Coal Lighter

Pennant No:                        X125

Laid down:
Builder:                               Yarwood, Northwich
Launched:                           25 September 1945
Into Service:                        March 1946
Out of service:                    1956 sold out of service
Fate:                                   Broken Up

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

25 September 1945 launched by  W.J. Yarwood & Sons (1938) Ltd, Northwich as Yard Nr: 773 named C641 for the Naval Stores Department

March 1946 completed

22 November 1947 arrived the River Tyne from Chatham

8 April 1948 arrived the River Tyne from Rosyth

10 January 1949 reclassified to RFA manning vide AFO 1356/49 continuing to be based at Rosyth.  Captain A Smith RFA appointed as Master and Mr William Gordon RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

14 April 1949 at Dunfermline Police Court Chief Engineer Officer William Gordon admitted assault and breach of the peace. He was fined £4

Press report from the Evening Telegraph

1 June 1949 arrived the River Tyne from Rosyth

2 June 1949 berthed on Newcastle Quay, River Tyne

7 June 1949 berthed on Newcastle Quay, River Tyne

11 July 1949 at Rosyth

13 July 1949 arrived at the River Tyne from Rosyth

10 January 1950 at Rosyth

10 March 1950 at Chatham

1956 on disposal list at Sheerness

May 1956 bought by F.T.Everard & Sons Ltd and named changed to CANDOURITY

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

January 1958 converted to oil fuel burning

10 February 1958 arrived at the River Tyne berthing on the Lawe Oil Wharf, South Shields

3 March 1958 arrived at the River Tyne

29 May 1958 sailed from the River Tyne

18 June 1958 arrived at the River Tyne

21 July 1958 arrived at the River Tyne

29 July 1958 arrived at the River Tees sailing the same day for the River Tyne

26 August 1958 arrived at the River Tyne berthing on the Lawe Oil Wharf, South Shields

1958 rebuilt as a tanker; tonnages now 474 grt.,  225 nrt.,  570 dwt and dimensions now 165’01” x 28’03” x 10’05½”

12 September 1958 berthed on the Lawe Oil Wharf, South Shields

8 January 1962 had engine trouble off Breaksea Point in severe weather.  A tug eventually got a hawser to her and towed her to Barry Roads

24 August 1968 sailed out bound from the River Thames

June 1969 sold for demolition by Van den Bosche & Co at Boom

18 June 1969 sailed in tow from the Thames

19 June 1969 arrived Antwerp enroute to breakers