1944 Wave-class oiler of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
History
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.
^ abMcCluskie, Tom (2013). The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff. Stroud: The History Press. p. 154. ISBN 9780752488615.
^ abGill, G. Hermon (1968). Royal Australian Navy 1939-1942. Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 2 – Navy. Vol. 2. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. pp. 604, 612.
^"RFA Wave King". historicalrfa.uk. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
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