RFA Orangeleaf (A80)

Orangeleaf refueling USS Shangri-La (CVA-38) and Carlo Martgottini (F595), in 1967
History
United Kingdom
Name: RFA Orangeleaf (A80)
Operator: Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Builder: Furness Shipbuilding Company
Laid down: 27 November 1953
Launched: 8 February 1955 as Southern Satellite
Commissioned: 25 May 1959 and renamed Orangeleaf
Decommissioned: May 1978
Fate: Scrapped in Seoul 14 September 1978
General characteristics
Class and type: Leaf-class tanker
Displacement: 17,960 tons full load
Length: 556 ft 6 in (169.62 m)
Beam: 71 ft 5 in (21.77 m)
Draught: 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m)
Propulsion: 1 × 6-cylinder Doxford diesel.
Speed: 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h)

RFA Orangeleaf (A80) was a Leaf-class support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the United Kingdom. She served between 1959 and 1978.

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