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| Career |
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| Ordered: |
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| Laid down: |
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| Launched: |
10 May 1915 - the 1st ship to bear this name |
| Commissioned: |
1915 |
| Decommissioned: |
1937 |
| Fate: |
Renamed BACCHUS 11 in May 1936 in order to free the name for a new ship.Sunk as target 15 November 1938 over the Hurd Deep, 10 miles off Alderney in the Channel Islands, by gunfire from the cruiser HMS DUNEDIN |
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| General characteristics |
| Displacement: |
3598 tons full load |
| Length: |
295.1 ft (p.p.) |
| Beam: |
44.1 ft |
| Draught: |
20.8 ft |
| Propulsion: |
2 x 3 cyl triple expansion steam. Two shafts |
| Speed: |
10 knots |
| Range: |
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| Complement: |
52 |
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RFA Bacchus (1915) was a stores freighter and distilling ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Built by William Hamilton of Port Glasgow for the Indo China S.N.Co and purchased by the Admiralty while on the stocks on 22 March 1915.
