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Fast fleet tanker
Tide-class tanker is a fast fleet tanker. It was built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. Reported operators include Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Technical data
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Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Tide class
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering
Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Leaf class and Rover class
£ 452 million net (eventually £550 million net as no money was returned to the UK treasury) for 4 RFA vessels (hull build only) £ 137.5 million per RFA unit final (hull build only) NOK 1.32 billion for HNoMS Maud (FY 2013)
2014–2018
2017
4 (RFA), 1 (Norway)
4 (RFA), 1 (Norway)
3 (RFA), 1 (Norway)
1 (RFA) in extended readiness (uncrewed reserve)
Fast fleet tanker
39,000 t (38,000 long tons; 43,000 short tons)
200.9 m (659 ft 1 in)
28.6 m (93 ft 10 in)
10 m (32 ft 10 in)
Combined diesel-electric or diesel (CODELOD)
20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
18,200 nautical miles (33,700 km; 20,900 mi)
Tanks for diesel oil, aviation fuel (19,000 m³) and fresh water (1,400 m³) Lubrication oil stored in drums Stowage for up to 8 ft × 20 ft containers
63 plus 46 non-crew embarked persons (Royal Marines, flight crew, trainees)
Kelvin Hughes Integrated Bridge System Servowatch IPMS System 3 × SharpEye radar
2 × Phalanx CIWS (fitted for, depending on deployment) 2 × DS30B Mk 1 30 mm guns (fitted for, depending on deployment)
1 × Wildcat or AgustaWestland Merlin
Enclosed Merlin-capable hangar Large Chinook -capable flight deck
Reference text from Wikipedia contributors, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tide-class tanker equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
United KingdomRoyal Fleet Auxiliary exact named Tide component holdings; active, operational-reserve and training equipment excluding equipment in store, except explicit status exclusions stated below. November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only, not a national total or combat-readiness measure. Source armament/capacity counts are excluded. Only the leading three RFA Tide tankers are counted. One more non-operational Tide and non-operational Fort Victoria are excluded; no Norwegian Maud or four-built class total is inferred.