Part of the Acorn Archive

Hearts of Oak

 

 

 

Athel Line Ships

 

Empire Paladin

 

EMPIRE PALADIN

8141 grt

474 ft x 64ft

Built 1944 Furness Shipbuilding Ltd, Haverton Hill-on-Tees.

Completed April 21st 1944

MOWT

1946 transferred Royal Fleet Auxiliary

Renamed WAVE COMMANDER

Involved in a collision in the Straits of Gibraltar 14th July 1954.

1959 Scrapped Inverkeithing.

 

RFA Wave Commander

 

 

Raymond Forward