RFA Fort Langley (A230)

Career
Name: RFA Fort Langley
Launched: 31 October 1944, as Montebello Park
Commissioned: 18 May 1945, as Fort Langley
Decommissioned: February 1970
Struck: 1970
Fate: Sold for scrapping, 1970
General characteristics
Tonnage:7,263 gross register tons (GRT)
Net tonnage (NT) of 4,018
7,543 tonnes deadweight (DWT)
Length:441 ft 6 in (134.57 m)
Beam:57 ft 2 in (17.42 m)
Draught:27 ft (8.2 m)
Propulsion:1 × 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engine, 2,500 ihp (1,864 kW)
1 shaft
Speed:11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Range:11,400 nmi (21,100 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:115
Armament:World War II :
• 1 × 4 in (100 mm) gun
• 8 × 20 mm AA guns

RFA Fort Langley (A230) was a stores ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

The ship was launched on October 1944 as Montebello Park, and was commissioned on 18 May 1945 as Fort Langley. Transferred to the RFA in May 1954, she was decommissioned in February 1970, and laid up at Devonport. Fort Langley arrived at Bilbao for scrapping on 21 July 1970.

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