RFA Orangeleaf

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

RFA Orangeleaf (1917) was a Leaf-class tanker launched in 1916 in RFA Bornol, renamed RFA Orangeleaf in 1917 and sold in 1947.
RFA Orangeleaf (A80) was a Leaf-class tanker launched in 1955 as Southern Satellite. She was purchased by the RFA in 1959 and broken up in 1978.
RFA Orangeleaf (A110) was a Leaf-class tanker launched in 1975 as Hudson Progress, and later renamed Balder London. She was acquired in 1984 and was decommissioned in September 2015.

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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, sometimes also sharing a common pennant number.

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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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