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| Career |
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| Ordered: |
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| Laid down: |
14 November 1936 |
| Launched: |
5 October 1937 named Westerwald |
| Commissioned: |
6 January 1939 renamed Nordmark |
| Decommissioned: |
Placed in reserve in October 1950 |
| Fate: |
Arrived Dalmuir for demolition on 4 October 1955. |
| Struck: |
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| General characteristics |
| Displacement: |
22500 tons full load |
| Length: |
584'00" |
| Beam: |
72'06" |
| Draught: |
30'03" |
| Propulsion: |
Steam turbine with double reduiction gearing. 21590 shp. 2 shafts. |
| Speed: |
21 knots |
| Range: |
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| Complement: |
133 German 292 British |
| Armament: |
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| Aircraft: |
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Nordmark (later Northmark) was a former German Navy fast fleet oiler which was allocated to the RN by the Inter-Allied Repatriations Commission when RN forces entered Copenhagen on 9 May 1945. She arrived at Rosyth on 8 August 1945 and the following month went to Hebburn-on-Tyne for survey and repairs and conversion for service with the British Pacific Fleetbut the War ended and she was placed in reserve instead. She was renamed Northmark in January 1946 and was considered as an RFA-manned oiler but the cost of modifications was considered to be unjustifiable and a follow-up proposal was taking up after approval was given to operate her as an HM ship. She therefore never served as an RFA but was refitted for service as an HM ship in 1947 and on completion was renamed HMS Bulawayo in July 1947.Served as such until she was scrapped in 1955.
