RFA Echodale
Appearance
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | RFA Echodale |
Builder | Hawthorn Leslie and Company |
Laid down | 8 January 1940 |
Launched | 29 November 1940 |
Commissioned | 4 March 1941 |
Decommissioned | 12 April 1959 |
Fate | Arrived at Spezia for scrapping on 20 September 1961 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Dale-class fleet tanker |
Displacement | 16,798 tonnes full load |
Length | 483 ft 4 in (147.32 m) |
Beam | 59 ft 4 in (18.08 m) |
Draught | 27 ft 6.5 in (8.39 m) |
Propulsion | Burmeister & Wain 8-cylinder diesels with a single shaft 6,800 hp (5,100 kW). |
Speed | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h) |
Complement | 44 |
RFA Echodale (A170) was a Dale-class fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
She was decommissioned on 12 April 1959 and was laid up at Devonport Dockyard.