RFA_Wave_Sovereign_(A211)

RFA <i>Wave Sovereign</i>

RFA Wave Sovereign

1946 Wave-class oiler of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary

RFA Wave Sovereign (A211) was a Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and was built at Haverton Hill by the Furness Shipbuilding Company.

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On 8 December 1948, Wave Sovereign was in collision with the destroyer Corunna while refuelling Corunna.[1] She was extensively modified in the early 1960s.

She was decommissioned in 1966 and laid up at Singapore.[2] Wave Sovereign was scrapped there in May 1967.[3]

Wave Sovereign replenishing HMS Ocean and HMCS Nootka off Korea, 1952.

Citations

  1. [1]
    English 2008, p. 167
  2. [2]
    "Straits Times". 15 January 1966. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  3. [3]
    "RFA Wave Sovereign". historicalrfa.uk. Retrieved 24 November 2023.

References

  • English, John (2008). Obdurate to Daring: British Fleet Destroyers 1941–45. Windsor, UK: World Ship Society. ISBN 978-0-9560769-0-8.


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