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Dates: 1946 - 1955 Laid down in Elbing, Germany on November 14th 1936, Nordmark was a German Fast Fleet Attendant Oiler and Supply Ship. At the end of the war she was captured by the allies and allocated to Britain. She underwent a conversion at Hebburn and was commissioned into the Royal Fleet Auxiliary as RFA Northmark. She spent much of 1946 in reserve first at Milford Haven and then at Falmouth but between 1948 and 1949 she underwent an extensive refit at Portsmouth which saw her fitted with two cargo lifts. She was transferred to the Royal Navy under the name HMS Bulwayo. She was sold for scrap in 1955.
Memories of HMS Bulawayo
HMS Bulawayo, in 1950Written by GEORGE SMITH Contact this person >>  "Although we were only in commition for 18 months they were the happiest period of my 8 years in the Andrew The Bully waqs a happy ship with great shipmates some of us still meet up once a year to swing the lamp a bit.(see reunions) afer 60 years."
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