Oilwell

Photographed 19 May 1988 at Portsmouth

 

Oilwell

Pennant number: Y23

Standard displacement 280 tons

Full displacement 530 tons;

Length 41.5 m x Beam 9.0 m x Draught 2.5 m

Propulsion 1 x Lister Blackstone diesel (405 bhp)

Speed 9 knots

Complement 2 officers and 7 ratings

Builders Babcock Marine Appledore , Appledore, U.K.

Launched January 1969 and Completed 1969.

 

The Oilpress class of 6 coastal tankers were ordered in 1967 to provide raid and cost-effective transmission of oil products between coastal installations, these vessels operated as bunkering craft in the major naval bases, they were operated by RMAS

 

1999 Sold out of service and renamed Dragonfish, being operated by M.H. Bland Shipping of Gibraltar

 

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