RFA Brambleleaf (1959)
RFA Brambleleaf (A81) was a Leaf-class small tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
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Name: |
London Loyalty (1953–59),[1] RFA Brambleleaf(1959–72)[1] Mayfair Loyalty (1972–74)[1] |
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Builder: | Furness Shipbuilding Co., Stockton-on-Tees, England[1] |
Yard number: | 454[1] |
Launched: | 16 April 1953 as London Loyalty[1] |
Commissioned: | 22 May 1959 and renamed Brambleleaf[1] |
Decommissioned: | Returned to her owners in March 1972 & name changed to Mayfair Loyalty[1] |
Renamed: |
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Identification: | IMO number: 5050244 |
Fate: | Scrapped July 1976[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Leaf class tanker |
Tonnage: | 12,123 GRT, 7,042 net, 17,960 deadweight[1] |
Propulsion: | 1 × 6-cylinder Doxford single-acting two-stroke diesel engine.[1] |
Notes: | sister ship: RFA Bayleaf (A79) |
RFA Brambleleaf was built by Furness Shipbuilding Company of Stockton-on-Tees.[1] She was launched as the civilian London Loyalty for London & Overseas Freighters in 1953 and completed on 8 January 1954.[1] She was a sister ship of RFA Bayleaf (A79) built by the same shipyard for LOF the following year.
She was bareboat chartered for the RFA in 1959 and renamed RFA Brambleleaf.[1] She was returned to her owners in 1972, who transferred her to their Mayfair Tankers subsidiary and registered her in Liberia as the Mayfair Loyalty.[1]
On 9 September 1974 she was laid up at La Spezia, Italy.[1] On 27 February 1976 she was sold for scrap, and demolition began in La Spezia in July of that year.[1]
References
- Sedgwick et al., p. 69
Sources and further reading
- Sedgwick, Stanley; Kinnaird, Mark; O'Donoghue, K.J. (1993) [1992]. London & Overseas Freighters, 1948-92: A Short History. World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-68-1.
- Sedgwick, Stanley; Sprake, R.F. (1977). London & Overseas Freighters Limited 1949-1977. World Ship Society. ISBN 0905617037.