Name Eddybeach Commissioned 8 December 1951 Type Tanker Launched 24 May 1951 Draft 5.26 m | Laid down 20 March 1950 Decommissioned 27 May 1962 Construction started 20 March 1950 Length 87 m | |
Fate Sold to Greece in 1964, and renamed Mykinai
Foundered at her moorings at Mar del Plata, 2 September 1979 | ||
RFA Eddybeach (A132) was an Eddy class coastal tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the United Kingdom. The ship mainly saw service in the Mediterranean, quite often at Gibraltar where it functioned as a water carrier. In 1964 Eddybeach was disposed of by sale to Greece.
Eddybeach can be seen in the background during the scene depicting Lional 'Buster' Crabbe's first dive in Gibraltar harbour in the film The Silent Enemy (1958).
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