RFA Bayleaf (A79)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Template:Short description Template:Other ships Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English

Template:Infobox ship imageTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship characteristics

RFA Bayleaf (A79) was a Leaf-class support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, and the second ship to bear the name.

Bayleaf was launched by the Furness Shipbuilding Company of Stockton-on-Tees.<ref name=SKO71/> She was launched as the civilian London Integrity for London & Overseas Freighters in 1954 and completed in 1955.<ref name=SKO71/> She was a sister ship of RFA Brambleleaf (A81) built by the same shipyard for LOF the previous year.

She was bareboat chartered for the RFA in 1959 and renamed RFA Bayleaf.<ref name=SKO71/> She was returned to her owners in 1973, with whom she traded as the London Integrity again until the end of 1976.<ref name=SKO71/>

On 7 January 1977 she was sold for scrap and on 25 January 1977 she arrived in Burriana in Spain to be broken up.<ref name=SKO71/>

References

Template:Reflist

Sources and further reading

  • {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}

Template:Leaf-class tanker


Template:UK-aux-ship-stub