Name RFA Pearleaf Decommissioned 8 May 1986 Launched 15 October 1959 Draft 9.1 m Builders Scotstoun, Glasgow | Commissioned 15 January 1960 Class and type Leaf-class tanker Length 173 m Operation Falklands War | |
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Fate Sold, 1986
Scrapped, 1993 Displacement 25,790 long tons (26,204 t) | ||
RFA Pearleaf (A77) was a Leaf-class support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the United Kingdom. She was the second ship to bear the name.
Service history
Pearleaf and her sister-ship Plumleaf (A78) were originally built by Blythswood Shipbuilding Co. Ltd, in Scotstoun, Glasgow, for and owned by Jacobs & Partners Ltd, London. They were both taken over on completion by the Ministry of Defence, on a 20-year bareboat charter.
Chartered in 1960, she served until 1986 and saw service during the Falklands War.
Pearleaf was returned to owners, and then sold to Petrostar Co. Ltd of Saudi Arabia. Renamed Nejmat el Petrol XIX, she served as a static fuel storage facility.
In 1993 she was sold to shipbreakers Nasir Trading Co. at Gadani Beach, Pakistan, where demolition commenced on 8 March 1993.