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| Career (UK)
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| Name: |
SS Empire Salisbury (1944-46)
RFA Wave Master (1946-63) |
| 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
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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 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.
