RFA Wave Sovereign
RFA Wave Sovereign (A211) was a Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and was built at Haverton Hill by the Furness Shipbuilding Company.
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Name | RFA Wave Sovereign |
Ordered | 29 May 1943 |
Builder | Furness Shipbuilding Company, Haverton Hill-on-Tees |
Laid down | 10 May 1944 |
Launched | 20 November 1945 |
Commissioned | 28 February 1946 |
Decommissioned | 1966 |
Fate | Scrapped in May 1967 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 8,187 gross register tons (GRT) |
Displacement | 16,483 tonnes full load |
Length | 492 ft 8 in (150.16 m) |
Beam | 64 ft 4 in (19.61 m) |
Draught | 28 ft 6 in (8.69 m) |
Propulsion | Parsons double reduction geared turbines,3 drum type boilers, 6,800 hp (5,100 kW). |
Speed | 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h) |
On 8 December 1948, Wave Sovereign was in collision with the destroyer Corunna while refuelling Corunna.[1] She was extensively modified in the early 1960s.
She was decommissioned in 1966 and laid up at Singapore.[2] Wave Sovereign was scrapped there in May 1967.
Citations
- English 2008, p. 167
- "Straits Times". 15 January 1966. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
References
- English, John (2008). Obdurate to Daring: British Fleet Destroyers 1941–45. Windsor, UK: World Ship Society. ISBN 978-0-9560769-0-8.
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