THE LAUNCHING MALLET FOR THE ROYAL FLEET AUXILIARY FREIGHTER ‘BACCHUS’, 1936

finely turned in treen, the head with silver-plate inscribed ‘F.R.A. BACCHUS/LAUNCHED/AT DUNDEE/15.7.36/BY/ MRS W.J.GICK’ -- 12in. (30.5cm.)

Built by the Caledon SB, Dundee, 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 water distillation unit from HMS Resolution and thereafter deployed as a stores ship. Attached to the British Pacific Fleet in 1945 she spent time at HMS Tamar in Hong Kong. A freighter from 1946, in 1956 she took part in Operation Musketeer, known to history as the Suez crisis. Sold in 1962 and renamed Pulau Bali, she was beached at Singapore in 1964 for breaking.

Condition Report

Fine overall condition

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