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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|1946 Spa-class coastal water carrier of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary}}<br />
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'''RFA ''Spapool'' (A222)''' was a ''Spa''-class<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rfaaplymouth.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=125 |title=Miscellaneous Tankers |publisher=rfaaplymouth.org |accessdate=2009-11-16 }}</ref> coastal water carrier of the [[Royal Fleet Auxiliary]].<br />
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The ship was laid down on 13 August 1945 by [[Charles Hill & Sons]] of [[Bristol]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historicalrfa.org/rfa-spapool |title=RFA Spapool |publisher=www.historicalrfa.org |accessdate=2009-11-16 }}</ref> launched on 28 February 1946, and was commissioned on 14 June 1946, serving until 1976 when it was sold off by the Ministry of Defence.<br />
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''Spapool'' was purchased commercially in July 1976 at [[Mombasa]] and used by Divecon Ltd. as a salvage vessel later that year for the recovery of MV ''Southern Pioneer'', a tanker that sank at [[Tanga, Tanzania]]. She was used as a bunker barge in Mombasa after the boiler was condemned. The ship sank on [[Christmas Day]] 1983, and was salvaged by Divecon Ltd., Mombasa in 1984, and scrapped.<br />
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