Built by ‘Vickers-Armstrong’, Barrow & launched on 29th July 1945 as LST 3044. Named HMS Narvik in 1947. She was flagship of the British Task Force for the Atomic Bomb tests in Monte Bello Islands in May 1956.
She became a ‘Submarine Support Ship’ at Chatham & then, in 1960, became a Depot Ship to the 108th Minesweeping Squadron in Malta.
In 1965 she moved to Faslane to become an accommodation ship as the new Clyde Naval Base was being built. She was berthed inside MAIDSTONE during 1966-68.
Broken up probably in 1970’s