| Name: | M O B 8 |
| Type: | Tanker |
| Launched: | 1945 |
| Completed: | 1945 |
| Builder: | Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 22 |
| Dimensions: | 180dwt, 136grt, 49nrt, 104.0 x 19.7 x 7.2ft |
| Engines: | C2cyl (10 & 20 x 15ins) |
| Engines by: | A Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 185895 |
| History: | |
| 1945 | Royal Army Service Corps |
| 13/12/1951 | Pound’s Shipowners & Shipbreakers Ltd, Portsmouth |
| 11/1952 | FT Everard & Sons Ltd, London; renamed APEXITY |
| 01/1959 | Everard Shipping Co Ltd, London |
| 04/1964 | WGS Crouch & Sons Ltd, Greenhithe |
| 1965 | Renamed WILLIAM SPEARING |
| 1974 | C Crawley Ltd, Gravesend; renamed AQUASEAL |
| 1975 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Ordered by the Admiralty & built as a Military Oil Barge hence MOB |
| 05/05/1944: Order transferred to Royal Army Service Corps | |
| 1969: Re-engined with a 6cyl 2SA ‘D’ type oil engine by | |
| Newbury Diesel Co Ltd. | |
| 1975: Engine removed & the hull broken up at Sittingbourne by Liguria Maritime Ltd | |
| 01/08/1978: Breaking up commenced |
Photo as MOB 8 copyright of David Habesch
Photo as APEXITY courtesy of Paul Strathdee