War Bahadur 1918

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Name:	WAR BAHADUR
Type:	Tanker
Launched:	04/11/1918
Completed:	12/1918
Builder:	Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard:	Low Walker
Yard Number:	950
Dimensions:	11660disp, 5565grt, 3473nrt, 400.0 x 52.4 x 28.4ft
Engines:	T3cyl (27, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 517nhp
Engines by:	North Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd
Propulsion:	1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction:	Steel
Reg Number:	142737

History:
09/12/1918	UK Shipping Controller (CT Bowring & Co Ltd, managers), London
1921	The Admiralty (CT Bowring & Co Ltd, managers), London
22/09/1946	Broken up

Comments:	1921: Became a Royal Fleet Auxilliary oiler
	14/01/1938: Suffered severe damage from an Atlantic gale with the upper and lower bridge, the wireless office and the master's cabin being carried away. The chart room was wrecked. The Chief Officer, the quartermaster and a look out were lifted from the bridge with the wreckage and dropped onto the main deck. Derricks were twisted. Funnel stays were snapped and the funnel holed. The steering gear was put out of action. Distress rockets were fired but not answered. The starboard lifeboat was carried away. The vessel was eventually steered from the emergency steering position and the ship was escorted into Devonport under escort from HMS WOLVERINE
	05/02/1938: Repaired and became a fuelling hulk at Devonport
	07/08/1946: Handed over to the Ministry of Transport and sold to BISCO for scrapping
	22/09/1946: Arrived at Blyth for breaking up by Hughes Bolckow Ltd