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RFA Wave Sovereign

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History
RFA EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameRFA Wave Sovereign
Ordered29 May 1943
BuilderFurness Shipbuilding Company, Haverton Hill-on-Tees
Laid down10 May 1944
Launched20 November 1945
Commissioned28 February 1946
Decommissioned1966
FateScrapped in May 1967
General characteristics
Tonnage8,187 gross register tons (GRT)
Displacement16,483 tonnes full load
Length492 ft 8 in (150.16 m)
Beam64 ft 4 in (19.61 m)
Draught28 ft 6 in (8.69 m)
PropulsionParsons double reduction geared turbines,3 drum type boilers, 6,800 hp (5,100 kW).
Speed14.5 knots (26.9 km/h)

RFA Wave Sovereign (A211) was a Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and was built at Haverton Hill by Furness Shipbuilding. She was extensively modified in the early 1960s.

She was decommissioned in 1966 and laid up at Singapore.[1] Wave Sovereign was scrapped there in May 1967.

Wave Sovereign replenishing HMS Ocean and HMCS Nootka off Korea, 1952.

References

  1. ^ "Straits Times". 15 January 1966. Retrieved 4 May 2015.