RFA Wave Sovereign

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.

History
United Kingdom
Name	RFA Wave Sovereign
Ordered	29 May 1943
Builder	Furness Shipbuilding Company, Haverton Hill-on-Tees
Laid down	10 May 1944
Launched	20 November 1945
Commissioned	28 February 1946
Decommissioned	1966
Fate	Scrapped in May 1967
General characteristics
Tonnage	8,187 gross register tons (GRT)
Displacement	16,483 tons full load
Length	492 ft 8 in (150.16 m)
Beam	64 ft 4 in (19.61 m)
Draught	28 ft 6 in (8.69 m)
Propulsion	Parsons double reduction geared turbines,3 drum type boilers, 6,800 hp (5,100 kW).
Speed	14.5 knots (26.9 km/h)

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.