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RFA Cherryleaf (1959)

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Name
  
RFA Cherryleaf

Commissioned
  
15 May 1959

Class and type
  
Leaf-class tanker

Length
  
166 m

Builder
  
Laing, Depford

Decommissioned
  
4 February 1966

Launched
  
28 May 1953

Draft
  
9.35 m

Fate
  
Returned to owners, 1966

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

Launched in 1953 as Laurelwood, the ship was acquired by the RFA, and renamed Cherryleaf in 1959.

In 1966 the ship was returned to her previous owners and renamed Agios Constantinos. She was renamed Aeas in 1967, and as Irene's Fortune in 1972. She sailed from Piraeus for demolition at Lavrion on 13 December 1975.

References

RFA Cherryleaf (1959) Wikipedia