RFA EddyfirthRFA Eddyfirth was an of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, the naval auxiliary fleet of the United Kingdom.Construction and designEddyfirth was launched at Lobnitz & Co.'s Renfrew shipyard on 10 September 1953 and completed on 10 February 1954. The ship had an overall length of and a length between perpendiculars of. Beam was and draft. The ship displaced light and full load, with a capacity of 1650 tons of oil. Two oil fired boilers fed a triple-expansion steam engine rated at and drove a single propeller shaft, giving a speed of.Service historyInitially, Eddyfirth was based in Malta as support for the Motor Minesweeping Flotilla. In 1966 she returned to United Kingdom coastal waters, reclassified as a harbour oiler. Withdrawn from service in 1981, she was scrapped in Seville in March 1982.