RFA ''Fort Langley'' (A230) was a stores ship of the

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. The ship was launched on 31 October 1944 as ''Montebello Park'' by Victoria MD in

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. She was completed on 18 May 1945 as ''Fort Langley'' for the

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as an Air stores issuing ship under the management of Alfred Holt and Company. Transferred to the RFA in May 1954, she was decommissioned in February 1970, and laid up at Devonport. ''Fort Langley'' arrived at

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for scrapping on 21 July 1970. Fort and Park ship were the Canadian equivalent of the American

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s. All three shared a similar design by J.L. Thompson and Sons of Sunderland, England. Fort ships had a

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and a single screw propeller.

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