Part of the
Acorn Archive
Hearts of Oak
RFA Wave Class
Oilers
Royal Fleet
Auxiliary
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WAVE PROTECTOR, WAVE REGENT,
WAVE RULER
WAVE SOVEREIGN, WAVE VICTOR
WAVE PROTECTOR
1944
8,148 grt; 16,650 tons nominal full displacement.
465ft 3ins x 64ft x 35ft 6ins (68ft o/a)
Furness Shipbuilding Ltd, Haverton Hill-on-Tees.
Launched 20th July 1944 as EMPIRE PROTECTOR(2)
Three drum type boilers.
Two Parson type doubled reducing geared HP & LP Steam
Turbines.
Single screw; 6,800 shp; 15 knots
1944 EMPIRE PROTECTOR; MOWT; managed Anglo-Saxon
Petroleum Co.
1946 WAVE PROTECTOR; Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Pennant : A215
1958 Fuelling Hulk ; Malta
1963 Scrapped Le Grazie, Italy
Wave Protector
WAVE REGENT 1945
8,200 grt; 16,650 tons nominal full displacement.
465ft 3ins x 64ft x 35ft 6ins (68ft o/a)
Built 1945
Furness Shipbuilding Ltd, Haverton Hill-on-Tees.
Launched 29th March 1945
Three drum type boilers.
Two Metrovick type doubled reducing geared HP & LP
Steam Turbines.
Single screw; 6,800 shp; 15 knots
1945 WAVE REGENT; Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Pennant : A210
1960 Scrapped in Faslane 1960
Wave Regent
Wave Regent
WAVE RULER 1946
8,138 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 17th January 1946 as EMPIRE EVESHAM
Three drum type boilers.
Two Parson type doubled reducing geared HP & LP Steam
Turbines.
Single screw; 6,800 shp; 15 knots
1946 EMPIRE EVESHAM ; MOWT
1947 WAVE RULER; Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Pennant : A212
1952 WAVE RULER was damaged by fire while anchored off
Greenock.
1952 Served during the Cod War
1953 Aground near Swansea.
1958 Served at the Christmas Island Nuclear Tests
1970 Fuelling hulk ; Gan Island, Maldives
1975 Sold for scrap.
1977 Scrapped Taiwan.
Wave Ruler
Wave Ruler
Wave Ruler
WAVE SOVEREIGN
1945
8,200 grt; 16,650 tons nominal full displacement.
465ft 3ins x 64ft x 35ft 6ins (68ft o/a)
Built 1945 Furness
Shipbuilding Ltd, Haverton Hill-on-Tees.
Launched 20th November 1945
Three drum type boilers.
Two Parson type doubled reducing geared HP & LP Steam
Turbines.
Single screw; 6,800 shp; 15 knots
1945 WAVE SOVEREIGN : Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Pennant : A211
1948 October : WAVE SOVEREIGN was in collision with the
battle class
destroyer
HMS SLUYS while conducting a RAS, suffering slight damage.
1950/3 Served in
the Korean War
1958 Served at
the Christmas Island Nuclear Tests
1966 Scrapped.
Wave Sovereign
Wave Sovereign
WAVE VICTOR 1943
8,128 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 30th September 1943 as EMPIRE
BOUNTY
Three drum type boilers.
Two Parson type doubled reducing geared HP & LP Steam
Turbines.
Single screw; 6,800 shp; 15 knots
1943 EMPIRE BOUNTY; MOWT;
managed Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co.
1946
WAVE VICTOR, Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Pennant : A220
1954
January : WAVE VICTOR had a major engine room fire and had to be
abandoned, the fire was put out the
following day.
The vessel was nearly lost
due to this fire.
1960 Chartered to Air Ministry, fuelling hulk at Gan Island, Maldives.
1975 Hulked Manila Bay, Philippines
1981
Scrapped
Wave Victor
Raymond
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