Name RFA Aldersdale Laid down September 1936 Construction started September 1936 Length 147 m Builder Cammell Laird | Ordered 1936 Commissioned 17 September 1937 Launched 7 July 1937 Draft 8.39 m | |
Fate Damaged in air attack on 5 July 1942
Abandoned hulk sunk on 7 July 1942 Class and type Dale-class fleet tanker | ||
RFA Aldersdale (X34) was a Dale-class fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
She was originally one of six ships ordered by the British Tanker Co., which were purchased on the stocks by the Admiralty prior to the Second World War. Aldersdale was part of convoy PQ 17 in 1942, and was damaged by bombs from three Junkers aircraft on 5 July 1942 after Convoy PQ 17 had been ordered to scatter. Aldersdale was abandoned and the drifting wreck was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-457 on 7 July 1942.
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