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BENNEVIS, a modified C3-S-A1 type launched at Tacoma on 8th November 1943 as U.S.S. WILLAPA (designated ACV-53, later CVE-53), is seen passing Brunsbüttel on 21st June 1969 outbound from Hamburg during a voyage from Grangemouth to Bangkok.
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https://www.navsource.org/archives/03/053.htm
She was outfitted by Burrards at Vancouver as a transport carrier but refitted in the U.K. and delivered to the Royal Navy on 5th February 1944 as the Escort Aircaft Carrier H.M.S.PUNCHER, then converted to a cargo ship in 1948
EX- MUNCASTER CASTLE - 54 BARDIC - 59
BENNEVIS finally arrived at Kaohsiung on 11.6.73 for breaking.
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