Name RFA Abbeydale Commissioned 4 March 1937 Launched 28 December 1936 Draft 8.38 m | Ordered 1936 Decommissioned 18 September 1959 Length 147 m Builder Swan Hunter | |
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Fate Arrived at shipbreakers for scrapping on 4 September 1960 Displacement 17,210 tonnes full load | ||
RFA Abbeydale (A109) was a fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and was originally one of six ships ordered by the British Tanker Co which were purchased on the stocks by the Admiralty.
She was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd and launched on 28 December 1936. Abbeydale served until being decommissioned on 18 September 1959 and laid up at HMNB Devonport. She was then sold for scrapping, arriving at the breakers' yards Thos W Ward at Barrow-in-Furness on 4 September 1960 .
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