RFA ''Fort Langley'' (A230) was a stores ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. The ship was launched on 31 October 1944 as ''Montebello Park'' by Victoria MD in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She was completed on 18 May 1945 as ''Fort Langley'' for the Ministry of War Transport as an Air stores issuing ship under the management of

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. 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. Fort and Park ship were the Canadian equivalent of the

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Liberty ships. All three shared a similar design by

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, England. Fort ships had a triple expansion steam engine and a single screw

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