RFA Fort Charlotte
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Template:Infobox ship imageTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship characteristicsRFA Fort Charlotte (A236) was a stores issuing ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Launched on 12 February 1944 as SS Buffalo Park a merchant steamship constructed for Canada’s Merchant Navy in 1944 during the Second World War as part of Canada's Park ship program. The ship was acquired by the Ministry of War Transport in 1945 and renamed Fort Charlotte, a Fort ship. The ship was transferred to the RFA on 11 June 1948. Decommissioned in 1967, she was sold to Singapore breakers in January 1968. <ref name=FOP>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=Fort>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> During World War II, 28 were lost to enemy action, and four were lost due to accidents. Many of the surviving 166 ships passed to the United States Maritime Commission. The last recorded scrapping was in 1985,<ref name=FortA>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=FortK>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=FortT>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and two ships, the former Template:SS and Template:SS, were listed on Lloyd's Register until 1992.<ref name=FortK/>
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