RFA Resurgent
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | RFA Resurgent |
Builder | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock |
Laid down | 7 June 1949 |
Launched | 31 July 1950 |
Commissioned | July 1957 |
Decommissioned | 18 August 1979 |
Identification | IMO number: 5293468 |
Fate | Scrapped in Spain in 1981 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Retainer class armament stores ship |
Displacement | 14,400 tons |
Length | 477 ft 2 in (145.44 m) |
Beam | 62 ft 2 in (18.95 m) |
Draught | 22 ft 0.75 in (6.72 m) |
Propulsion | 1 x 6 cyl Scott-Doxford diesel |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Aviation facilities |
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RFA Resurgent (A280) was an armament support ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Built by Scotts of Greenock as Changchow, a cargo/passenger liner for the China Navigation Co. Made redundant by the Communist victory in 1949, Changchow and her sistership Chungking (later RFA Retainer) were chartered to the French « Messageries Maritimes », for the Marseilles-Sydney line, via Panama.[1] Purchased by the
Admiralty
and chartered out to British India until 1957.
In 1956-1957, under the name Resurgent, she was again chartered to the « Messageries Maritimes », making trips to New Caledonia and Australia. After that, she was converted to an armament store issuing ship and entered RFA service.[1]
In 1975 she took part in the
Three Brothers in the 18th century, was named after the RFA Resurgent which supported the scuba diving scientific research expedition to the area.[2]
She served until 1979, sailing from Rosyth in tow for demolition in Spain on 5 May 1981.
References
- ^ a b "Le paquebot Changchow, futur Resurgent, affrété par les Messageries Maritimes". messageries-maritimes.org (in French).
- ^ Baldwin, EA (ed.) (1975), A report on the Joint Services Expedition to Danger Island in the central Indian Ocean, December 1974 to April 1975 Ministry of Defence Publication, London