1963 Tide-class replenishment oiler of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
History
United Kingdom
Name
RFA Tidepool
Ordered
28 February 1961
Builder
Hawthorn Leslie and Company
Laid down
14 December 1961
Launched
11 December 1962
Commissioned
28 June 1963
Decommissioned
13 August 1982
Identification
IMO number: 5425607
Fate
Sold to Chile, 1982
Chile
Name
Almirante Jorge Montt
Namesake
Jorge Montt
Commissioned
13 August 1982
Decommissioned
15 December 1997
Identification
IMO number: 5425607
General characteristics
Class and type
Tide-class replenishment oiler
Displacement
27,400 long tons (27,840 t)
Length
583 ft 8 in (177.90 m)
Beam
71 ft 3 in (21.72 m)
Draught
32 ft 1 in (9.78 m)
Propulsion
2 × Parmetrada steam turbines
2 × Foster Wheeler watertube steam boilers
Double reduction gearbox, single shaft
Speed
17 knots (20 mph; 31 km/h)
Complement
90 (RFA)
Aircraft carried
Three Westland Wessex helicopters
Service record
Operations:
Cod War
Beira Patrol
Falklands War
RFA Tidepool (A76) was a Tide-class replenishment oiler of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Tidepool had a long and busy life in the fleet. The ship participated in both the Cod Wars and the Beira Patrol during the 1970s. In 1982 when the Falklands War broke out Tidepool was on its way to Chile to be disposed of. The ship was temporarily reclaimed by the United Kingdom and was finally handed over to the Chilean Navy on 13 August 1982 and renamed Almirante Jorge Montt.
RFA Tidepool in the Total Exclusion Zone, May 1982.
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