Name RFA Fort Duquesne Struck 1967 Draft 8.2 m | Decommissioned April 1967 Length 134 m | |
Launched 28 September 1944, as Queensborough Park Commissioned 25 November 1944, as Fort Duquesne Fate Sold for scrapping, 1967 | ||
RFA Fort Duquesne (A229) was an air stores ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
The ship was launched on 28 September 1944 and named Queensborough Park, and commissioned on 25 November 1944 and renamed Fort Duquesne. The ship was transferred to the RFA on 16 September 1947.
In 1955 she starred in the film The Battle of the River Plate, playing the German freighter Tacoma, which took the crew off German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee before she was scuttled off Montevideo.
Fort Duquesne was decommissioned in April 1967 and put in reserve at Chatham. She arrived at the Scheldt for demolition at Tamise on 29 June 1967.
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