A-111 Oakleaf

Country:  United Kingdom

Class, [Type]: Oakleaf, [AO].

Builder: Uddevalla, Sweden.

Launch date: 02 July 1981.

Commission date: 14 August 1986.

Decommission date: 2007.

Displacement ( tons ): 49.658 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 173,7 x 32,2 x 11,2

Main machinery: 1 x Burmeister & Wain 4L80ME diesel ( 10.800 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 14.

Complement: 35 ( 14 officers ) plus 6 scientists.

Guns: 2 x 7,62mm.

Military lift: fuel: 40.000m³.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 2 x Plesey Shield or Corvus chaff launchers can be fitted.

Callsign: GABS ()

Comment: Ex-Oktania. Bought in july 1985, and converted to Fleet Oiler at Falmouth Ship Repairers. After finishing the conversion was delivered to the Royal Navy, being comissioned officially the 14th of august 1986. Ice-strenghtened hull.