Name RFA Spapool Commissioned 14 June 1946 Struck 1976 Launched 28 February 1946 Draft 3.7 m | Laid down 13 August 1945 Decommissioned 1976 Construction started 13 August 1945 Length 52 m | |
Builder Charles Hill & Sons, Bristol | ||
RFA Spapool (A222) was a Spa-class coastal water carrier of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
The ship was laid down on 13 August 1945 by Charles Hill & Sons of Bristol, launched on 28 February 1946, and was commissioned on 14 June 1946, serving until 1976 when it was sold off by the MoD.
Spapool was purchased commercially in July 1976 at Mombasa and used by Divecon Ltd. as a salvage vessel later that year for the recovery of M/V Southern Pioneer, a tanker that sank at Tanga, Tanzania. She was used as a bunker barge in Mombasa after the boiler was condemned. The ship sank on Christmas Day 1983, and was salvaged by Divecon Ltd., Mombasa in 1984, and scrapped.
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