In April of 1942 she was assigned to the British Eastern Fleet at Ceylon . She took part in Operation Stab and spent the next three years fuelling and escorting convoys across the Indian Ocean . On 14 April 1944 she sustained minor damage from the explosion of the ammunition ship '' Fort Stikine '' , and then in August was accidentally torpedoed by the submarine HMS '' Severn '' , rupturing two tanks and killing one
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1944 Bombay explosion
RFA Broomdale (A168)