RFA Olwen (A122)

RFA Olwen in the 1980s
History
Name	RFA Olwen
Ordered	4 February 1963
Builder	Hawthorn Leslie and Company
Yard number	755
Laid down	11 July 1963
Launched	10 July 1964, as Olynthus
Commissioned	21 June 1965
Decommissioned	1999
Renamed	Olwen, 5 August 1967
Fate	Renamed Kea in May 2001. Arrived Alang for demolition 21 July 2001.
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General characteristics
Class and type	Ol class tanker
Displacement	33,240 long tons (33,773 t) full load
Length	648 ft (198 m)
Beam	84 ft 2 in (25.65 m)
Draught	34 ft (410 in)
Propulsion	2 × PAMETRADA steam turbines, double reduction geared
Speed	21 knots (24 mph; 39 km/h)
Range	10,000 nmi (19,000 km) at 16 kn (18 mph; 30 km/h)
Complement	88 RFA 40 RN
Armament	2 × 20 mm guns 2 × Chaff launchers
Aircraft carried	3 × Westland Wessex or Westland Sea King helicopters

For other ships with the same name, see RFA Olwen.

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.

References

• O Class Fleet Replenishment Tankers