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| Career |
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| Ordered: |
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| Laid down: |
24 July 1961 |
| Launched: |
3 May 1963 |
| Commissioned: |
18 January 1963 |
| Decommissioned: |
13 December 1991 |
| Fate: |
Scrapped in India |
| Struck: |
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| General Characteristics |
| Displacement: |
27,400 tons |
| Length: |
177 m |
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| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: |
17 knots |
| Range: |
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| Armament: |
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| Aircraft: |
Three Westland Wessex helicopters |
| Motto: |
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RFA Tidespring (A75) was a fast fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. The ship had a long career in the RFA, entering service in the early 1960s, and finally being decommissioned in 1991. Tidespring took part in the Falklands War, particularly in the recapture of South Georgia. The ship accommodated prisoners of war taken during operations. The Falklands provided a reprieve of ten years for Tidespring which had been due to decommission in 1982.
