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Hearts of Oak

 

 

 

Athel Line Ships

 

Empire Herald

 

 

EMPIRE HERALD

Built 1945  Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd, Sunderland. 

8197 grt; full displacement 16,650; 11,900 dwt

465ft 4ins x 64ft x 68ft.

15 knots

1946 Tanker : MOWT     Managed by Athel Ltd.

1947 WAVE PRINCE, A207  Royal Fleet Auxiliary : Wave Class.

Refitted and modernised 1961-2.

1971 Scrapped Burriana, Spain.

 

 

Empire Herald as  RFA Wave Prince

 

 

Raymond Forward