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词条 RFA Bacchus (A103)
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  1. Service history

  2. Post WWII

  3. References

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RFA Bacchus (A103) was a stores freighter and fresh water distilling ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was the second ship to bear this name, replace the one before her. In her time she would carry the pennants X03, B556, A103.[1]

Service history

Built by the Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Dundee. She was converted to stores issuing ship in 1942, and reconverted to freighter in 1946.

She was used first on the Chatham - Gibraltar - Malta run taking naval supplies and a small number of passengers. With World War II breaking out she was given the distillation unit from {{HMS|Resolution|09|6}}[2] and after then a stores ship. Attached to the British Pacific Fleet Train in 1945 she spent time at HMS Tamar in Hong Kong.

Post WWII

From 1946 RFA Bacchus started on the overseas sea freight service she would make the run through U.K, Mediterranean and Far East Run through the Suez Canal and Aden. In 1956 she took part in Operation Musketeer on the (Suez).{{citation needed|date=October 2015}}

Laid up at Singapore, she was sold on 14 August 1962 and renamed Pulau Bali. Beached at Singapore on 12 August 1964 prior to scrapping.

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Ships starting with B RFA Ships starting with B|url=http://www.historicalrfa.org/ships-starting-with-b|publisher=www.historicalrfa.org|accessdate=20 November 2012}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=RFA Bacchus|url=http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/BPF-EIF/Ships/Bacchus.htm|publisher=www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk|accessdate=20 November 2012}}
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