Part of the
Acorn Archive
Hearts of Oak
RFA Wave Class
Oilers
Royal Fleet
Auxiliary
PAGE THREE
WAVE LIBERATOR, WAVE MASTER, WAVE
MONARCH,
WAVE PREMIER, WAVE PRINCE
WAVE LIBERATOR
1944
8,135 grt; 16,650 tons nominal full displacement.
465ft 3ins x 64ft x 35ft 6ins (68ft o/a)
Built 1944
Furness Shipbuilding Ltd, Haverton Hill-on-Tees.
Launched 9th February 1944 as EMPIRE MILNER
Three drum type boilers.
Two Parson type doubled reducing geared HP & LP Steam
Turbines.
Single screw; 6,800 shp; 15 knots
1944 EMPIRE MILNER; MOWT; managed Anglo-Saxon Petroleum
Co.
1946 WAVE LIBERATOR; Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Pennant : A248
1959 Scrapped Hong Kong.
Wave Liberator
Wave Liberator
WAVE MASTER 1944
8,199 grt; 16,650 tons nominal full displacement.
465ft 3ins x 64ft x 35ft 6ins (68ft o/a)
Built 1944 Sir J.
Laing & Sons Ltd, Sunderland.
Launched 20th May 1944 as EMPIRE SALISBURY
Three drum type boilers.
Two Parson type doubled reducing geared HP & LP Steam
Turbines.
Single screw; 6,800 shp; 15 knots
1944 EMPIRE SALISBURY ; MOWT; managed by Eagle Oil Co.
1946 WAVE MASTER; Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Pennant : A193
1963 Scrapped Singapore
Wave Master
Wave Master
WAVE MONARCH 1944 A264
8,200 grt; 16,650 tons nominal full displacement.
465ft 3ins x 64ft x 35ft 6ins (68ft o/a)
Built
1944 Harland & Wolff Ltd., Govan,
Glasgow
Launched 6th July 1944
Three drum type boilers.
Two Parson type doubled reducing geared HP & LP Steam
Turbines.
Single screw; 6,800 shp; 15 knots
1945 July : Tankers in the Pacific : Task Force 112
1960 Sold to Societe Miroline, France : Renamed NOEMA
1964 8th April : Arrived at Bilbao,Spain for
demolition
Wave Monarch
WAVE PREMIER 1946
8,200 grt; 16,650 tons nominal full displacement.
465ft 3ins x 64ft x 35ft 6ins (68ft o/a)
Built 1946
Furness Shipbuilding Ltd, Haverton Hill-on-Tees.
Launched 27th June 1946
Three drum type boilers.
Two Parson type doubled reducing geared HP & LP Steam
Turbines.
Single screw; 6,800 shp; 15 knots
1946 WAVE PREMIER; Royal Fleet Auxilairy
Pennant : A129
1950/3 Served in
the Korean War
1960 Sold for scrap in 1960 to Rosyth for £63,000
Wave Premier
Wave Premier
WAVE PRINCE 1945
8,197 grt; 11,900 dwt; 16,650 tons nominal full
displacement.
465ft 3ins x 64ft x 35ft 6ins (68ft o/a)
Built
1945 Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd,
Sunderland.
Launched 27th July 1945 as EMPIRE HERALD
Three drum type boilers.
Two Parson type doubled reducing geared HP & LP Steam
Turbines.
Single screw; 6,800 shp; 15 knots
1946
EMPIRE HERALD ; MOWT; Managed by Athel
Ltd.
1947
WAVE PRINCE; Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Pennant
: A207
1950/3 Served in
the Korean War
1961
Refitted and modernised.
1971 Sold for scrap.
1971
Scrapped Burriana, Spain.
Wave Prince
Wave Prince
Raymond
Forward