Name RFA Fort Rosalie Decommissioned 1 May 1972 Launched 18 November 1944 Draft 8.22 m | Laid down 29 August 1944 Construction started 29 August 1944 Length 135 m | |
Builder United Shipyards, Montreal Commissioned 7 April 1945
Transferred to the RFA on 20 November 1947 Fate Arrived at Castellon for scrapping on 10 February 1973 | ||
RFA Fort Rosalie (A186) was an armament stores carrier of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
She was built by United Shipyards, Montreal and initially completed as a stores ship but converted to an armament stores issuing ship at Portsmouth 1947/8. She served in the Pacific Fleet Train and remained in the Far East until 1951. She took part in Operation Grapple, the thermonuclear weapon test at Christmas Island in 1957. The ship was fitted with cargo lifts 1959/60. She was decommissioned on 1 May 1972 and laid up at Rosyth. She arrived at Castellon for scrapping on 10 February 1973.
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