RFA Wave Knight (A389)
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Ordered: | 12 March 1997 |
| Laid down: | 22 May 1998 |
| Launched: | September 2000 |
| Commissioned: | March 2003 |
| In service: | in active service |
| Status: | Unknown |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 31,500 tonnes approx |
| Length: | 181.7 metres |
| Beam: | 36.9 metres |
| Draught: | 10 metres |
| Propulsion: | Disel-electric; four Wartsila 12V 32E/GCLM motors; one shaft; 18t thrust electric Kamewa bow thruster and 12t thrust electric stern thruster |
| Speed: | 18 knots |
| Range: | exceeds 8,000 miles |
| Capacity: | 16,000 cubic metres, 3,000 cubic metres of aviation fuel, 380 cubic metres of fresh water, 125 tonnes of lubricating oil, 500 cubic metres of refrigerated solids and dry stores and 8 20ft containers |
| Complement: | 72 Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel and there is also provision for 26 Royal Navy personnel for helicopter and weapons systems operations. |
| Sensors and processing systems: | Surface search: E/F band; navigation: KH 1077, I-band; IFF: Type 1017 |
| Armament: | two 30mm cannon; four 7.62mm machine guns; fitted for but not with two Vulcan Phalanx |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 Merlin helicopter with full hangar facilities |
RFA Wave Knight (A389) is a Wave Knight-class fast fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the United Kingdom. RFA Wave Knight was built by BAE Systems, being launched in 2000. She was accepted into service in 2003.
RFA Wave Knight and RFA Wave Ruler are large fleet tankers designed to replace the Olna and Olwen, two 36,000t displacement fast fleet tankers, built at Swan Hunter and Hawthorn Leslie in the 1960s.
The ships are crewed by 72 Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel and there is also provision for 26 Royal Navy personnel for helicopter and weapons systems operations.
Wave Knight is able to operate in support of amphibious forces, anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare operations and protection of vital sea areas and shipping.
The ships have the capability to deliver fuel through an RAS (replenishment at sea) rig, either port, starboard or astern to other vessels. For amphibious support, the ships can also deliver fuel to pillow tanks or dracones positioned alongside. The RASCON replenishment at sea equipment is supplied by Rolls-Royce (Clarke Chapman). The package of abeam and astern re-fuelling systems includes the RAS system, an ammunition handling crane specially fitted out for abeam re-fuelling, steering gear and rudder packages, thyristor-controlled winch/windlasses and double drum mooring winches.
| Wave Knight-class tanker |
| Wave Knight | Wave Ruler |
List of replenishment ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary |
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