Name RFA Olwen Yard number 755 Commissioned 21 June 1965 Construction started 11 July 1963 | Ordered 4 February 1963 Laid down 11 July 1963 Length 198 m Draft 10 m | |
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Launched 10 July 1964, as Olynthus Builder Hawthorn Leslie and Company | ||
RFA Olwen (A122) was an Ol-class "fast fleet tanker" of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
The lead ship of her class, and launched in 1964 as RFA Olynthus, the second ship to bear this name, she was renamed Olwen in 1967 to avoid confusion with HMS Olympus. She was decommissioned in 1999 and laid up at Portsmouth, before being broken up at Alang, India in 2001.
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