Adula
Country | United Kingdom |
Ship Class | Rapana-class Merchant Vessel |
Displacement | 16,000 tons standard |
Length | 481 feet |
Beam | 60 feet |
Draft | 27 feet |
Speed | 11 knots |
Crew | 118 |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
ww2dbaseOriginally launched on 28 January 1937 as a civilian tanker vessel, Adula was converted into an axillary escort carrier in February 1944, carrying four aircraft during the war. She was scrapped at Briton Ferry in 1953.
ww2dbaseSource: Fleet Air Arm Archive
Last Major Revision: Jan 2005
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