History
RFA EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameRFA Resurgent
BuilderScotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock
Laid down7 June 1949
Launched31 July 1950
CommissionedJuly 1957
Decommissioned18 August 1979
IdentificationIMO number: 5293468
FateScrapped in Spain in 1981
General characteristics
Class and typeRetainer class armament stores ship
Displacement14,400 tons
Length477 ft 2 in (145.44 m)
Beam62 ft 2 in (18.95 m)
Draught22 ft 0.75 in (6.72 m)
Propulsion1 x 6 cyl Scott-Doxford diesel
Speed15 knots (28 km/h)
Aviation facilities
  • Small landing platform aft
  • No hangar facilities

RFA Resurgent (A280) was an armament support ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Built by Scotts of Greenock as Changchow, a cargo/passenger liner for the China Navigation Co. Made redundant by the Communist victory in 1949, Changchow and her sistership Chungking (later RFA Retainer) were chartered to the French « Messageries Maritimes », for the Marseilles-Sydney line, via Panama.[1] Purchased by the Admiralty and chartered out to British India until 1957. In 1956-1957, under the name Resurgent, she was again chartered to the « Messageries Maritimes », making trips to New Caledonia and Australia. After that, she was converted to an armament store issuing ship and entered RFA service.[1]

In 1975 she took part in the Joint Services Expedition to Danger Island (JSDI). Small, rocky, Resurgent Island, which had emerged after the naming of the Three Brothers in the 18th century, was named after the RFA Resurgent which supported the scuba diving scientific research expedition to the area.[2]

She served until 1979, sailing from Rosyth in tow for demolition in Spain on 5 May 1981.

References

  1. 1 2 "Le paquebot Changchow, futur Resurgent, affrété par les Messageries Maritimes". messageries-maritimes.org (in French).
  2. ↑ Baldwin, EA (ed.) (1975), A report on the Joint Services Expedition to Danger Island in the central Indian Ocean, December 1974 to April 1975 Ministry of Defence Publication, London


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