RFA Tidepool (A76)

History

United Kingdom
Name:	RFA Tidepool
Ordered:	28 February 1961
Laid down:	14 December 1961
Launched:	11 December 1962
Commissioned:	28 June 1963
Decommissioned:	13 August 1982
Fate:	Sold to Chile, 1982
Chile
Name:	Almirante Jorge Montt
Namesake:	Jorge Montt
Commissioned:	13 August 1982
Decommissioned:	15 December 1997
General characteristics
Class & type:	Tide-class replenishment oiler
Displacement:	27,400 long tons (27,840 t)
Length:	583 ft 8 in (177.90 m)
Beam:	71 ft 3 in (21.72 m)
Draught:	32 ft 1 in (9.78 m)
Propulsion:	2 × Parmetrada steam turbines 2 × Foster Wheeler watertube steam boilers Double reduction gearbox, single shaft
Speed:	17 knots (20 mph; 31 km/h)
Complement:	90 (RFA)
Aircraft carried:	Three Westland Wessex helicopters
Service record
Operations:	Cod War Beira Patrol Falklands War

RFA Tidepool (A76) was a Tide-class replenishment oiler of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

Tidepool had a long and busy life in the fleet. The ship participated in both the Cod Wars and the Beira Patrol during the 1970s. In 1982 when the Falklands War broke out Tidepool was actually on its way to Chile to be disposed of. The ship was temporarily reclaimed by the United Kingdom and was finally handed over to the Chilean Navy on 13 August 1982 and renamed Almirante Jorge Montt.

RFA Tidepool in the Total Exclusion Zone, May 1982.

References

Chilean Navy website Almirante Jorge Montt

British Naval Forces of the Falklands War

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Tide-class replenishment oilers

Royal Fleet Auxiliary	Tidereach Tideflow (ex-Tiderace) Tidesurge Tide Austral Tidespring Tidepool

Royal Australian Navy	Supply (ex-Tide Austral)

Chilean Navy	Almirante Jorge Montt (ex-Tidepool)

List of replenishment ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary List of ships of the Royal Australian Navy

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