RFA Brambleleaf (1959)

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RFA Brambleleaf (A81) was a Template:Sclass2 small tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), the naval auxiliary fleet of the United Kingdom.

RFA Brambleleaf was built by Furness Shipbuilding Company of Stockton-on-Tees.<ref name=SKO69/> She was launched as the civilian London Loyalty for London & Overseas Freighters in 1953 and completed on 8 January 1954.<ref name=SKO69/> She was a sister ship of Template:RFAux built by the same shipyard for LOF the following year.

She was bareboat chartered for the RFA in 1959 and renamed RFA Brambleleaf.<ref name=SKO69/> 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.<ref name=SKO69/>

On 9 September 1974 she was laid up at La Spezia, Italy.<ref name=SKO69/> On 27 February 1976 she was sold for scrap, and demolition began in La Spezia in July of that year.<ref name=SKO69/>

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