RFA Spa (A192)
RFA Spa (A192) was a coastal water carrier of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Her bell is now in the chapel of St Nicholas, Langstone, Havant.[1]
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name: | RFA Spa |
Ordered: | October 1939 |
Builder: | Philip and Son, Dartmouth, Devon[1] |
Laid down: | 26 September 1940[1] |
Launched: | 8 November 1941[2] |
Commissioned: | 24 April 1942[1] |
Fate: | Laid up at Greenock. Arrived Passage West, Cork for scrapping, 9 October 1970[1] |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type: | Spa-class water carrier |
Tonnage: | 500 long tons deadweight (DWT) |
Displacement: | 1,219 long tons (1,239 t) full load |
Length: | |
Beam: | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
Draught: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
Propulsion: |
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Speed: | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
Armament: |
References
- White, Christopher J.; Robinson, Peter. "RFA Spa". Historical RFA. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- Blackman 1962, p. 293.
- "Spa Water Class Carriers". historicalrfa.org. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
- Blackman, Raymond V. B. (1962). Jane's Fighting Ships 1962–63. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.
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