RFA ''Bacchus'' (A404) was a stores ship of the
Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), the naval
auxiliary fleet
An auxiliary ship is a naval ship designed to support combatant ships and other naval operations. Auxiliary ships are not primary combatant vessels, though they may have some limited combat capacity, usually for purposes of self-defense.
Auxil ...
of the
United Kingdom. She was the third ship to bear
this name.
Built by
Henry Robb of
Leith for the
British-India Steam Navigation Company (later
P & O) and operated by the RFA on a long-term
bareboat charter
A bareboat charter or demise charter is an arrangement for the chartering or hiring of a ship or boat, whereby no crew or provisions are included as part of the agreement; instead, the people who rent the vessel from the owner are responsible f ...
. She was designed to carry naval stores from UK to overseas Naval bases, she pioneered containerisation with "Chacons", small wooden containers developed at
Chatham Dockyard.
''Bacchus'' was returned to her owners on 1 October 1981, and renamed ''Cherry Lanka'' on 6 November 1981. She scrapped at
Gadani Beach on 31 December 1985.
Her sister-ship, caught fire and was a constructive total loss in 1978 in
Gibraltar
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References
Ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
1962 ships
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