RFA Wave Master
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Builder | Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd, Sunderland |
Laid down | 1943 |
Launched | 20 May 1944 |
Commissioned | December 1946 |
Decommissioned | 23 September 1962 |
Fate | Scrapped in May 1963 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 8,187 gross register tons (GRT) |
Displacement | 16,483 tons full load |
Length | 492 ft 8 in (150.16 m) |
Beam | 64 ft 4 in (19.61 m) |
Draught | 28 ft 6 in (8.69 m) |
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 Master (A193) was a Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
She was built as Empire Salisbury by Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd, and transferred to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in 1946. She was laid up at Singapore on 23 September 1962, and scrapped at Jurong in May 1963.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "RFA Wave Master". Retrieved 5 January 2020.