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Leaf-class tanker, the Glossary

The Leaf class is a class of support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), the naval auxiliary fleet of the United Kingdom.^[1]

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Cold War auxiliary ships of the United Kingdom
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Admiralty (United Kingdom)

The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.

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Ascension Island

Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island, 7°56′ south of the Equator in the South Atlantic Ocean.

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Auxiliary ship

An auxiliary ship is a naval ship designed to support combatant ships and other naval operations.

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Aviation fuel

Aviation fuels are petroleum-based fuels, or petroleum and synthetic fuel blends, used to power aircraft.

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Bareboat charter

A bareboat charter, or demise charter, is an arrangement for the chartering or hiring of a ship or boat for which no crew or provisions are included as part of the agreement.

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Barnsley

Barnsley is a market town in South Yorkshire, England.

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Bartram & Sons

Bartram & Sons was a shipbuilder on Wearside, North East England, that specialised in building cargo ships.

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Beam (nautical)

The beam of a ship is its width at its widest point.

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Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England; historically, it was part of Cheshire until 1974.

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Blyth Shipbuilding Company

The Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Company Ltd. was a British shipyard located in Blyth, Northumberland, England.

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Blyth, Northumberland

Blyth is a port and seaside town as well as a civil parish in southeast Northumberland, England.

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Bulk cargo

Bulk cargo is commodity cargo that is transported unpackaged in large quantities.

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Burmeister & Wain

Burmeister & Wain was a large established Danish shipyard and leading diesel engine producer headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Cammell Laird

Cammell Laird is a British shipbuilding company.

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Chartering (shipping)

Chartering is an activity within the shipping industry whereby a shipowner hires out the use of their vessel to a charterer.

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Crossley

Crossley, based in Manchester, United Kingdom, was a pioneering company in the production of internal combustion engines.

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Cylinder (engine)

In a reciprocating engine, the cylinder is the space in which a piston travels.

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Dale-class oiler

The Dale class were a class of replenishment oilers taken up for service with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, supporting the Royal Navy during the inter-war period. Leaf-class tanker and Dale-class oiler are auxiliary replenishment ship classes and tankers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

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Deadweight tonnage

Deadweight tonnage (also known as deadweight; abbreviated to DWT, D.W.T., d.w.t., or dwt) or tons deadweight (DWT) is a measure of how much weight a ship can carry.

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Diesel engine

The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine).

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Displacement (ship)

The displacement or displacement tonnage of a ship is its weight.

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Draft (hull)

The draft or draught of a ship is a determined depth of the vessel below the waterline, measured vertically to its hull's lowest—its propellers, or keel, or other reference point.

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Emden

Emden is an independent city and seaport in Lower Saxony in the northwest of Germany, on the river Ems.

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Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.

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Falklands War

The Falklands War (Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Fuel oil

Fuel oil is any of various fractions obtained from the distillation of petroleum (crude oil).

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Furness Shipbuilding Company

The Furness Shipbuilding Company was a shipbuilding company in Haverton Hill, Stockton on Tees, England.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Gross register tonnage

Gross register tonnage (GRT, grt, g.r.t., gt), or gross registered tonnage, is a ship's total internal volume expressed in "register tons", each of which is equal to.

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James Laing (shipbuilder)

Sir James Laing (1823–1901) was a British shipbuilder and founder of James Laing & Sons in Sunderland.

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Janes Information Services

Janes is a global open-source intelligence company specialising in military, national security, aerospace and transport topics, whose name derives from British author Fred T. Jane.

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Keel laying

Laying the keel or laying down is the formal recognition of the start of a ship's construction.

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Knot (unit)

The knot is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, exactly (approximately or). The ISO standard symbol for the knot is kn.

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List of replenishment ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary

This is a list of replenishment ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, the naval auxiliary fleet of the United Kingdom.

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London & Overseas Freighters

London & Overseas Freighters Ltd. (LOF) was an ocean-going merchant shipping company that for most of its history was based in the United Kingdom.

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MAN Truck & Bus

MAN Truck & Bus SE (formerly MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG) is a subsidiary of Traton, and one of the leading international providers of commercial vehicles.

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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence (MOD or MoD) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Net register tonnage

Net register tonnage (NRT, nrt, n.r.t.) is a ship's cargo volume capacity expressed in "register tons", one of which equals to a volume of.

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Nordseewerke

Nordseewerke Emden GmbH (sometimes abbreviated NSWE, in English: North Sea Company) was a shipbuilding company, located in the Emden Harbor of the north German city of Emden.

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Oil tanker

An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products.

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Pennant number

In the Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth of Nations, ships are identified by pennant number (an internationalisation of pendant number, which it was called before 1948).

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Replenishment oiler

A replenishment oiler or replenishment tanker is a naval auxiliary ship with fuel tanks and dry cargo holds which can supply both fuel and dry stores during underway replenishment (UNREP) at sea.

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Royal Australian Navy

The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval force of the Australian Defence Force (ADF).

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Royal Fleet Auxiliary

The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is a naval auxiliary fleet owned by the UK's Ministry of Defence.

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Scotstoun

Scotstoun (Baile an Sgotaich) is an area of Glasgow, Scotland, west of Glasgow City Centre.

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SEMT Pielstick

SEMT Pielstick was a French company that designed and built large diesel engines.

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Ship class

A ship class is a group of ships of a similar design.

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South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England.

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Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in County Durham, England, with a population of 84,815 at the 2021 UK census.

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Sunderland

Sunderland is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Uddevalla

Uddevalla is a town and the seat of Uddevalla Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden.

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Underway replenishment

Underway replenishment (UNREP) (U.S. Navy) or replenishment at sea (RAS) (North Atlantic Treaty Organization/Commonwealth of Nations) is a method of transferring fuel, munitions, and stores from one ship to another while under way.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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Warship

A warship or combatant ship is a ship that is built and primarily intended for naval warfare.

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Wave-class oiler

The Wave class was a class of twenty replenishment oilers built for service supporting the Royal Navy (RN) during the later years of the Second World War. Leaf-class tanker and Wave-class oiler are auxiliary replenishment ship classes and tankers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf-class_tanker

Also known as Leaf class tanker.

, Sweden, Uddevalla, Underway replenishment, United Kingdom, Warship, Wave-class oiler, Wearside, William Doxford & Sons, 1956 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference.

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See also

Cold War auxiliary ships of the United Kingdom

Leaf-class tankers

References