RFA ''Scotol'' was a 1000-ton class tanker of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary. The ship was built by the Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., at Willington Quay,

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, Northumberland, and launched on 23 June 1916. First used as a Port Oiler at

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, and then stationed at

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until August 1947, the ship was sold to Hemsley Bell Ltd (H.L.R. Bell, Managers) Southampton on 21 April 1948 and renamed ''Hemsley I''. The ship ran aground and was wrecked at Fox Cove on 12 May 1969 off Porthcothan, Cornwall, en route from Liverpool to the breakers at

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