RFA Wave King (A264)

Career (UK)
Name: RFA Wave King
Builder: Harland and Wolff, Govan
Yard number: 1222[1]
Laid down: 23 March 1943
Launched: 6 April 1944
Completed: 22 July 1944[1]
Commissioned: 22 July 1944
Decommissioned: 1956
Fate: Scrapped in April 1960
General characteristics
Tonnage:8,159 gross register tons (GRT)[2]
Displacement:16,483 tonnes full load
Length:473 ft 8 in (144.37 m)[2]
Beam:64 ft 3 in (19.58 m)[2]
Draught:35 ft 4 in (10.77 m)[2]
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 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 British Pacific Fleet, designated Task Force 57 upon joining the United States fleet.[3] On 6 May 1945 Wave King and Wave Monarch were with the Logistic Support Group 300 miles south-east of Miyako to refuel Task Force 57 which was launching air strikes against island targets in the Okinawa campaign.[3]

She was laid up at Portsmouth in 1956 and arrived at Barrow-in-Furness on 16 April 1960 for scrapping.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 McCluskie, Tom (2013). The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff. Stroud: The History Press. p. 154. ISBN 9780752488615.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Lloyds (1944-45). "Lloyd's Register" (PDF). Lloyd's Register (through PlimsollShipData). Retrieved 9 October 2013. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gill, G. Hermon (1968). Royal Australian Navy 1939-1942. Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 2 – Navy 2. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. pp. 604, 612.