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RFA FORT DUQUESNE 1947 - 1967
Photo 1948.  
GRT 7220. Built 1944 by West Coast as Queensborough Park. Renamed after what is now Pittsburgh. Managed by J.Nisbet. RFA from 1947 as NS/VSIS mainly with the Med Fleet and based at Malta. Experimental helicopter trials in 1951 which led to VERTREP. Laid up Chatham 1967 and scrapped Scheldt.

RFA FORT DUQUESNE 1947 - 1967

Photo 1948.
GRT 7220. Built 1944 by West Coast as Queensborough Park. Renamed after what is now Pittsburgh. Managed by J.Nisbet. RFA from 1947 as NS/VSIS mainly with the Med Fleet and based at Malta. Experimental helicopter trials in 1951 which led to VERTREP. Laid up Chatham 1967 and scrapped Scheldt.

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