RFA Tideflow (A97)

History

United Kingdom
Name:	RFA Tiderace
Laid down:	30 August 1953
Launched:	30 August 1954
Commissioned:	25 January 1956
Decommissioned:	November 1975
Renamed:	RFA Tideflow, 28 June 1958
Fate:	Scrapped, 1976
General characteristics
Class & type:	Tide-class replenishment oiler
Displacement:	26,000 long tons (26,417 t)
Length:	583 ft 4 in (177.80 m)
Beam:	71 ft 4 in (21.74 m)
Draught:	32 ft 1 in (9.78 m)
Propulsion:	2 × Parmetrada steam turbines 3 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Speed:	17 knots (20 mph; 31 km/h)
Complement:	90 RFA

RFA Tideflow (A97) was a Tide-class replenishment oiler of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

Commissioned in 1956, the ship was originally named Tiderace, but was renamed Tideflow in 1958 to avoid confusion with other members of the class.

Tideflow was decommissioned in November 1975, and arrived at Bilbao on 10 May 1976 to be broken up.

Tide-class replenishment oilers

Royal Fleet Auxiliary	Tidereach Tideflow (ex-Tiderace) Tidesurge Tide Austral Tidespring Tidepool

Royal Australian Navy	Supply (ex-Tide Austral)

Chilean Navy	Almirante Jorge Montt (ex-Tidepool)

List of replenishment ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary List of ships of the Royal Australian Navy

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