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RFA Oleander 1922-1940

Dockyard built at Pembroke. Managed commercially by Davies & Newman Ltd. Returned to Admiralty service in 1936, she took the first cargo for Australian naval tanks to Sydney in 1937. Attacked by German aircraft and badly damaged by a near miss at Harstad Bay, Norway, on 26 May 1940 and beached; she was declared a total loss on 8 June 1940.

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