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| Career (UK)
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| Name: |
RFA Wave King |
| Builder: |
Harland and Wolff, Govan |
| Laid down: |
23 March 1943 |
| Launched: |
6 April 1944 |
| Commissioned: |
22 July 1944 |
| Decommissioned: |
1956 |
| Fate: |
Scrapped in April 1960 |
| General characteristics
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| Tonnage: |
8,187 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Displacement: |
16,483 tonnes full load |
| Length: |
492 feet 8 inches (150.16 m) |
| Beam: |
64 feet 4 inches (19.61 m) |
| Draught: |
28 feet 6 inches (8.69 m) |
| Propulsion: |
Parsons double reduction geared turbines,3 drum type boilers, 6,800 horsepower (5,100 kW). |
| Speed: |
14.5 knots (26.9 km/h) |
RFA Wave King (A182) was a Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary built at Govan by Harland & Wolff Ltd. In 1945, she served in the Far East with the Eastern Fleet.
She was laid up at Portsmouth in 1956 and arrived at Barrow-in-Furness on 16 April 1960 for scrapping.
