RFA Brambleleaf (A81)
1980 Leaf-class support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see RFA Brambleleaf.
RFA Brambleleaf (A81) was a Leaf-class support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Originally built as MV Hudson Deep she was chartered by the Ministry of Defence in 1980.
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RFA Brambleleaf at Portsmouth Harbour | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | RFA Brambleleaf |
Ordered | 30 April 1973 |
Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
Laid down | 23 July 1974 |
Launched | 22 January 1976 |
Commissioned | 20 February 1980 |
Out of service | September 2007 |
Identification | IMO number: 7342029 |
Honours and awards | Falklands 1982, Al Faw 2003 |
Fate | Scrapped August 2009 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Leaf-class tanker |
Displacement | 40,870 t (40,225 long tons) full load |
Length | 170.7 m (560 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 25.9 m (85 ft 0 in) |
Draught | 11 m (36 ft 1 in) |
Propulsion | 2 Crossley-Pielsticks pc 2 v14 on one shaft |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 56 RFA |
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