RFA Brambleleaf (A81)

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Career RFA Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down: 23 July 1974
Launched: 22 January 1976
Commissioned: 20 February 1980
Decommissioned:
Fate: Due for scrapping 15 March 2007
Struck:
General characteristics
Displacement: 40,870 tonnes full load
Length: 170.7 m
Beam: 25.9 m
Draught: 11.0 m
Propulsion: 2 Crossley Pielsticks pc 2 v14 on one shaft
Speed: 15 knots
Range:
Complement: 56 RFA
Armament:
Aircraft: N/A
Motto:

RFA Brambleleaf (A81) is a Leaf-class support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She should not be confused with the small fleet tanker RFA Brambleleaf of 1959, also with the pennant number A81.