HMS Bonaventure (F139)
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| Class and type: | Cameron-class steamship modified to submarine depot ship |
| Name: | HMS Bonaventure |
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| Launched: | 27 October 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 26 January 1943 |
| Recommissioned: | 22 January 1945 |
| Out of service: | Returned to Clan Line on 23 March 1948 |
| Identification: | Pennant number F139 |
| Fate: | Scrapped from 25 December 1963 |
| Badge: | On a Field Barry wavy of 6 white and blue: within a horse shoe inverted Gold, a Griffin red. |
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| Length: | 487 ft (148 m) |
| Beam: | 63 ft (19 m) |
| Draught: | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | Two x steam triple expansion and exhaust turbine |
| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
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HMS Bonaventure was a submarine depot ship of the Royal Navy. She was initially built for civilian service with the Clan Line, but on the outbreak of the Second World War she was requisitioned by the Navy and after being launched, was converted for military service.
She was laid down at the yards of the Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Company, of Greenock, Scotland as a Clan Line Cameron-class steamship. She was provisionally allocated the name Clan Campbell. With the outbreak of war, Admiralty requisitioned her for the Royal Navy, and after her launch on 27 October 1942, she was converted at the yards of Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company to become a submarine depot ship for the X class midget submarines. After the conversion was completed she was commissioned into the Navy on 26 January 1943.
After completing work-up trials, Bonaventure sailed to Loch Striven on the west bank of the Clyde to become the main training base and depot ship for the X craft midget submarines. In August and September 1943, training and trials were carried out for the midget submarines HMS X5, X6, X7, X8, X9 and X10. They were to be used to carry out the attack on the German battleship Tirpitz in Altenfjord, Norway, codenamed Operation Source.
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