RFA Wave Sovereign

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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.

On 8 December 1948, Wave Sovereign was in collision with the destroyer Template:HMS while refuelling Corunna.<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref> She was extensively modified in the early 1960s.

She was decommissioned in 1966 and laid up at Singapore.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Wave Sovereign was scrapped there in May 1967.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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

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