RFA Orangeleaf (A110)

For other ships with the same name, see RFA Orangeleaf.

History
RFA Orangeleaf during refit at Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
United Kingdom
Name:	RFA Orangeleaf
Builder:	Cammell Laird
Launched:	1973
Commissioned:	1979^[1]
Identification:	Pennant number: A110 Call sign: GURK IMO number: 7342005 MMSI number: 233304000
Honours and awards:	Al Faw 2003
Status:	For Scrap
General characteristics
Class and type:	Leaf-class fleet support tanker
Displacement:	40,870 tonnes
Length:	560 ft (170.69 m)
Beam:	85 ft (25.91 m)
Draught:	36 ft (10.97 m)
Speed:	15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement:	56
Armament:	2 20mm GAM-BO1 4 7.62 mm GPMGs

RFA Orangeleaf was a Leaf-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.^[2]

As MV Balder London,^[3] before joining the RFA, she saw action in 1982, carrying aviation fuel to the Falkland Islands from Ascension. At the end of the conflict, she entered San Carlos water.

Orangeleaf saw action in the Gulf War in 1991. During early-to-mid-2004, the ship took part in a deployment with a French carrier battle group, centred on the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, to the Indian Ocean. She also appeared in the International Fleet Review of 2005.

On 23 October 2009, she was moved from Birkenhead dry-docks into the River Mersey and so to the Cammell Laird shipyard to continue a major refit.

In 2011, she conducted a light jackstay transfer with HMS Dragon.^[4] She was decommissioned on 30 September 2015. In Late February 2016 she towed for scrap to Aliaga, Turkey.^[5]^[6]^[7]

References

↑ "ORANGELEAF". www.marinetraffic.com. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
↑ "The RFA ORANGELEAF". www.fleetmon.com. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
↑ "RFA Orangeleaf". www.royalnavy.mod.uk. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
↑ "Dragon notches up another first as she conducts a Light Jackstay". Royal Navy. 27 March 2012. Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
↑ "Royal Fleet Auxiliary bids farewell to RFA Orangeleaf". Royal Navy. 29 September 2015. Archived from the original on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
↑ "Last of the RFA Leaf Class Tankers to Retire". Navaltoday.com. Archived from the original on 2 November 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
↑ "Farewell to Orangeleaf". navynews.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-15.

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