RFA Brambleleaf

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Three ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Brambleleaf:

RFA Brambleleaf (1917) was an oiler launched in 1916 under the name RFA Rumol. She was renamed Brambleleaf in 1917. She was torpedoed and beached in 1942, and was broken up in 1953.
RFA Brambleleaf (1959) was a Leaf-class tanker launched as the civilian London Loyalty for London & Overseas Freighters in 1953. She was bareboat chartered in 1959 and returned to her owners in 1972.
RFA Brambleleaf (A81) was a Leaf-class tanker launched in 1976 as Hudson Deep. She was taken into service in 1980 and sold for scrapping in 2009.

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Two ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Oakleaf:

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

RFA Brambleleaf (A81) was a Leaf-class support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Originally built as MV Hudson Deep she was chartered by the Ministry of Defence in 1980.

RFA Cherryleaf (A82) was a Leaf-class small fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, in service from 1973 to 1980.

RFA Cherryleaf (A82) was a Leaf-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

RFA Broomdale (A168) was a Dale-class fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She spent much of her career in the Indian Ocean and Far East.

Three ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Cherryleaf:

Three ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Appleleaf:

Two ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Derwentdale:

Two ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name RFA Oakol:

The Leaf class is a class of support tanker of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). The class is somewhat unusual as it is an amalgam of various civilian tankers chartered for naval auxiliary use and as such has included many different designs of ship. Leaf names are traditional tanker names in the RFA, and are recycled when charters end and new vessels are acquired. Thus, there have been multiple uses of the same names, confusingly sometimes sharing a common pennant number.

RFA Abadol was a British cargo liner, converted several times to end as a tanker in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was previously known as SS Montezuma from her launch in 1899 until 1915. From February 1917, she was named RFA Oakleaf. A few months later she was lost without casualties to a German torpedo attack.

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