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She was powered by a 10,000 horsepower 8 cylinder turbocharged diesel engine which gave

her a top speed of 16 knots (30 kmph or 18 mph). She was purchased in 1965 by Safmarine,
before being reconfigured in Durban as a replenishment ship SAS Tafelberg and then sold to

the SA Navy.

She participated in numerous exercises and operations during her career and in 1993 she was

sold for scrap.

In 1987 the SAN commissioned a second combat support ship which was the largest ship of

any kind to be designed and built in South Africa, the SAS Drakensberg

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