RFA Eddyfirth

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RFA Eddyfirth (A261) was an Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), the naval auxiliary fleet of the United Kingdom.

Construction and design

Eddyfirth was launched at Lobnitz & Co.'s Renfrew shipyard on 10 September 1953 and completed on 10 February 1954. The ship had an overall length of Script error: No such module "convert". and a length between perpendiculars of Script error: No such module "convert".. Beam was Script error: No such module "convert". and draft Script error: No such module "convert".. The ship displaced Script error: No such module "convert". light and Script error: No such module "convert". full load, with a capacity of 1650 tons of oil. Two oil fired boilers fed a triple-expansion steam engine rated at Script error: No such module "convert". and drove a single propeller shaft, giving a speed of Script error: No such module "convert"..[1]

Service history

Initially, Eddyfirth was based in Malta as support for the Motor Minesweeping Flotilla. In 1966 she returned to United Kingdom coastal waters, reclassified as a harbour oiler. Withdrawn from service in 1981, she was scrapped in Seville in March 1982. [2]

References

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  1. Blackman 1971, p. 376.
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