History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | RFA Wave King |
Builder | Harland and Wolff, Govan |
Yard number | 1222 [1] |
Laid down | 23 March 1943 |
Launched | 6 April 1944 |
Completed | 22 July 1944 [1] |
Commissioned | 22 July 1944 |
Decommissioned | 1956 |
Fate | Scrapped in April 1960 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 8,159 gross register tons (GRT) [2] |
Displacement | 16,483 long tons full load |
Length | 473 ft 8 in (144.37 m) [2] |
Beam | 64 ft 3 in (19.58 m) [2] |
Draught | 35 ft 4 in (10.77 m) [2] |
Propulsion | Parsons double reduction geared turbines,3 drum type boilers, 6,800 hp (5,100 kW). |
Speed | 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h) |
RFA Wave King (A182) was a Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary built at Govan by Harland & Wolff Ltd. In 1945, she served in the Far East with the British Pacific Fleet, designated Task Force 57 upon joining the United States fleet. [3] On 6 May 1945 Wave King and Wave Monarch were with the Logistic Support Group 300 miles south-east of Miyako to refuel Task Force 57 which was launching air strikes against island targets in the Okinawa campaign. [3]
Wave King struck a rock north of São Luís de Maranhão, Brazil, on 9 August 1956 and suffered severe damage. [4] She arrived at Barrow-in-Furness on 16 April 1960 for scrapping.