RFA Eddyfirth
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Template:Infobox ship imageTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship characteristicsRFA Eddyfirth (A261) was an Template:Sclass2 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 Template:Convert and a length between perpendiculars of Template:Convert. Beam was Template:Convert and draft Template:Convert. The ship displaced Template:Convert light and Template:Convert full load, with a capacity of 1650 tons of oil. Two oil fired boilers fed a triple-expansion steam engine rated at Template:Convert and drove a single propeller shaft, giving a speed of Template:Convert.<ref name="jfs71 p376">Blackman 1971, p. 376.</ref>
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 Withdrawn from service in 1981, she was scrapped in Seville in March 1982. <ref name=RFA>Template:Cite web</ref>