RFA Oakleaf
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Two ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
have borne the name RFA Oakleaf:
Royal Fleet Auxiliary
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary is a civilian-manned fleet owned by the British Ministry of Defence. The RFA enables ships of the United Kingdom Royal Navy to maintain operations around the world. Its primary role is to supply the Royal Navy with fuel, ammunition and supplies, normally by replenishment...
have borne the name RFA Oakleaf:
- RFA OakleafRFA AbadolRFA Abadol was a tanker in the British Royal Fleet AuxiliaryShe was built in Glasgow as the Elder Dempster cargo liner Montezuma by Alexander Stephen and Sons in 1899...
was the ocean linerOcean linerAn ocean liner is a ship designed to transport people from one seaport to another along regular long-distance maritime routes according to a schedule. Liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes .Cargo vessels running to a schedule are sometimes referred to as...
Montezuma, acquired by the RFA in 1915 as a dummy battleshipBattleshipA battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...
to imitate , and named Abadol. She was renamed Oakleaf in 1917 and was sunk by a U-boatU-boatU-boat is the anglicized version of the German word U-Boot , itself an abbreviation of Unterseeboot , and refers to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II...
later that year. - RFA OakleafRFA Oakleaf (A111)The RFA Oakleaf is a Leaf-class fleet support tanker, formerly of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, and the second ship to bear the name.Formerly the Swedish vessel MV Oktania, built by A. B...
is a Leaf-classLeaf class tankerThe Leaf class is a class of support tanker of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary . The class is somewhat unusual as it is an amalgam of various civilian tankers chartered for naval auxiliary use and as such there have been many different designs of ship in this particular class...
tanker launched in 1981 as the Oktania. She was acquired by the RFA in 1986 and was retired from active service as in 2009 and later scrapped.