Builder: Alexander Stephen and Sons, Glasgow.                             

Yard No: 383

Launched: 11th July 1899

Tonnage: 7,345 grt

Length: 485 feet

Beam: 59 feet

Machinery: Triple expansion engines, 2 shafts.

Speed: 13 knots

Dummy HMS Iron Duke before becoming RFA Abadol and then RFA Oakleaf

Builder: Alexander Stephen and Sons, Glasgow.                              Yard No: 383

Launched: 11th July 1899

Tonnage: 7,345 grt

Length: 485 feet

Beam: 59 feet

Machinery: Triple expansion engines, 2 shafts.

Speed: 13 knots

Built for Elder Dempster and Co, Liverpool as the Passenger Cargo ship ‘Montezuma’ , she was acquired by the Admiralty in 1914 and converted into the Dummy Battleship ‘HMS Iron Duke’.  She was converted again in July 1915 to the Tanker ‘RFA Abadol’, she had her name changed again to ‘RFA Oakleaf’ in February 1917 and was placed under the management of Lane and MacAndrews.

The ship was torpedoed and sunk by UC 41 off the Butt of Lewis on the 25th July 1917, without loss of life.