Builder: Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend            

Yard No: 261

Launched: 22nd February 1901

Tonnage: 7,474 grt

Length: 470 feet

Beam: 56.2 feet

Machinery: Triple expansion engine, single shaft.

Speed: 13 knots

Builder: Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend             Yard No: 261

Launched: 22nd February 1901

Tonnage: 7,474 grt

Length: 470 feet

Beam: 56.2 feet

Machinery: Triple expansion engine, single shaft.

Speed: 13 knots

Built for the of Liverpool as the Cargo Ship ‘Patrician’, she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to the Dummy Battleship ‘HMS Invincible’ in 1914, in 1915 she was converted to a Tanker and renamed ‘RFA Tarakol’ until 1917 when she was renamed again as ‘RFA Vineleaf’.  Like the other ‘Leaf’ class she was placed under the management of Lane and MacAndrews, London.

In 1920 the ship was sold to British Tankers and renamed ‘British Vine’.  The ship was sold again in 1923 to A/S Tonsberg Hvalfengeri, and renamed ‘Busen’.  She was broken up at Genoa, Italy in July 1935.