RFA Tidereach (A96)

History
RFA Tidereach with the aircraft carrier HMS Hermes
United Kingdom
Name:	RFA Tidereach
Builder:	Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend
Yard number:	1847
Laid down:	2 June 1953
Launched:	2 June 1954
Commissioned:	30 August 1955
Decommissioned:	March 1978
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 22 February 1979
General characteristics
Class and type:	Tide-class replenishment oiler
Displacement:	26,000 long tons (26,417 t)
Length:	583 ft 2 in (177.75 m) o/a 561 ft (171 m) w/l
Beam:	71 ft 3 in (21.72 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
Armament:	Fitted for, but not with, light AA guns

RFA Tidereach (A96) was a Tide-class replenishment oiler of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

Laid down on 2 June 1953 by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, and launched on 2 June 1954, Tidereach was commissioned on 30 August 1955 and served until March 1978.

She was then laid up in Portsmouth for disposal. On 22 February 1979 she was sold for scrap, and left Portsmouth under tow on 16 March 1979. On 20 March 1979 she arrived at Bilbao, Spain 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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