&sq=&lang=&file=File:Westralia_and_Regina.jpeg) HMAS Westralia replenishing the Canadian frigate HMCS Regina in 2001
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Appleleaf |
| Builder | Cammell Laird |
| Laid down | 5 November 1973 |
| Launched | 24 July 1975 |
| In service | 8 June 1979 |
| Out of service | 24 September 1989 |
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| Fate | Leased, then sold to the RAN |
 Australia | |
| Name | Westralia |
| Commissioned | 9 October 1989 |
| Decommissioned | 16 September 2006 |
| Identification | IMO number: 7342017 |
| Motto | "Faithful and Bold" |
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| Fate | Scrapped |
| Badge | &sq=&lang=&file=File:HMAS_Westralia_badge.png){kind=icon} |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Modified Leaf-class replenishment oiler |
| Displacement | 40,870 tonnes (full load) |
| Length | 171 m (561 ft 0 in) |
| Beam | 26 m (85 ft 4 in) |
| Draught | 12.03 m (39 ft 6 in) maximum |
| Propulsion | 2 × SEMT–Pielstick 14 PC2-2 V400 diesel engines; one shaft |
| Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Capacity | 25,000 tons of fuel |
| Complement | 96 |
| Armament | Two .50 cal Browning machine guns |
| Aviation facilities | Helicopter landing platform, no permanent carrying capacity |
HMAS Westralia (O 195) was a modified Leaf-class replenishment oiler which served with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1989 to 2006. Formerly RFA Appleleaf (A79), she served in with the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) from 1975 to 1989. The ship was initially leased to the RAN, then purchased outright in 1994. In 1998, a fire onboard resulted in the deaths of four sailors. Westralia was decommissioned in 2006, and the ship was sold into civilian service for use as a Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel, under the name Shiraz. However, the ship was laid up in Indonesia until late 2009, when she was sold to a Turkish ship breaking company. Arriving in January 2010, the vessel was scrapped.