RICHARDSON, DUCK & COMPANY, THORNABY
| Name | BEECHLEAF (launched as OLMOS) |
| Type | Tanker |
| Yard Number | 649 |
| Launched | 26/10/1916 |
| Completed | 03/1917 |
| Off. Number | 139200 |
| Engine builder | Blair & Co., Stockton-on-Tees |
| Engine type | T. 3 cyl. engine aft |
| GRT | 5861 |
| Length (feet) | 380.8 |
| Beam (feet) | 50.9 |
| First owner | The Shipping Controller (Lane & Macandrew Ltd.), London (launched for the Admiralty) |
| History | 1919 Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd., London |
| 1921 renamed LIMICANA | |
| 1927 N.V. Petroleum Mij. 'La Corona', The Hague | |
| 1927 CH. N. KAHAN, Naptha Industrie u. Tankanlagen A.G. 'Nitag', Hamburg | |
| 1936 Europaische Tanklager-und Transport A.G., Wilhelmshaven | |
| 1937 STANBRIDGE, Stanhope S.S. Co. Ltd. (J. A. Billmeir & Co. Ltd.), London | |
| 1939 EUROFELD, Europaische Tankreederei GmbH, Hamburg | |
| 09/1939 at Santa Cruz de Tenerife | |
| 11/1939 German Navy - supply btanker / depot tanker | |
| Fate | 11/09/1944 scuttled at St. Nazaire, refloated 1950 and broken up. |
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