RFA Brambleleaf (A81) at Portsmouth Harbour |
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Career | |
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Name: | RFA Brambleleaf |
Laid down: | 23 July 1974 |
Launched: | 22 January 1976 |
Commissioned: | 20 February 1980 |
Fate: | Towed to Gent for Scrapping 18th 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 (17 mph; 28 km/h) |
Complement: | 56 RFA |
RFA Brambleleaf (A81) was a Leaf-class support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She should not be confused with the support/freighting tanker RFA Brambleleaf of 1959, also with the pennant number A81. On the 18th of August 2009 she was towed to Ghent for scrapping.