https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=RFA_Wave_Emperor RFA Wave Emperor - Revision history 2026-06-24T12:35:11Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.44.2 https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?title=RFA_Wave_Emperor&diff=358731&oldid=prev imported>Lyndaship: as per source 2023-11-24T12:26:31Z <p>as per source</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|1944 Wave-class oiler of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}}<br /> {{Use British English|date=January 2018}}<br /> {|{{Infobox ship begin}}<br /> {{Infobox ship image<br /> |Ship image=RFA Wave Emperor.jpg<br /> |Ship image size=300px<br /> |Ship caption=<br /> }}<br /> {{Infobox ship career<br /> |Hide header=<br /> |Ship country=United Kingdom<br /> |Ship flag=[[File:British-Royal-Fleet-Auxiliary-Ensign.svg|60px|RFA Ensign]]<br /> |Ship name=RFA &#039;&#039;Wave Emperor&#039;&#039;<br /> |Ship namesake=<br /> |Ship ordered=3 February 1943<br /> |Ship builder=[[Furness Shipbuilding Company]], [[Haverton Hill]]<br /> |Ship laid down=19 May 1943<br /> |Ship launched=16 October 1944<br /> |Ship acquired=<br /> |Ship commissioned=20 December 1944<br /> |Ship decommissioned=<br /> |Ship in service=<br /> |Ship out of service=<br /> |Ship struck=1959<br /> |Ship reinstated=<br /> |Ship honours=<br /> |Ship fate=Laid up at Portland in the late 1950s. Arrived in Barrow for demolition on 19 June 1960<br /> |Ship notes=<br /> }}<br /> {{Infobox ship characteristics<br /> |Hide header=<br /> |Header caption=<br /> |Ship class=[[Wave class oiler|Wave-class]] [[Oil tanker|oiler]]<br /> |Ship displacement=16,650 tons full load<br /> |Ship length={{convert|492|ft|5|in|m|abbr=on}}<br /> |Ship beam={{convert|64|ft|4|in|m|abbr=on}}<br /> |Ship draught={{convert|28|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}}<br /> |Ship draft=<br /> |Ship propulsion=2 x Parsons double reduction geared steam turbines. 6,800 shp. Single shaft.<br /> |Ship speed=14.5 knots<br /> |Ship range=<br /> |Ship complement=<br /> |Ship sensors=<br /> |Ship EW=<br /> |Ship armament=<br /> |Ship armour=<br /> |Ship armor=<br /> |Ship aircraft=<br /> |Ship aircraft facilities=<br /> |Ship notes=<br /> }}<br /> |}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;RFA &#039;&#039;Wave Emperor&#039;&#039; &#039;&#039;&#039; (A 100) was a [[Wave class oiler|Wave-class]] [[Oil tanker|oiler]] of the [[Royal Fleet Auxiliary]] built at [[Haverton Hill]] by the [[Furness Shipbuilding Company]].<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070621174940/http://www.btinternet.com/~warship/Postwar/RFA/wave.htm Wave Class Oilers] - website on Oilers by Jeremy Olver.<br /> {{Wave class oiler}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Wave Emperor}}<br /> [[Category:Wave-class oilers]]<br /> [[Category:Tankers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary]]<br /> [[Category:1944 ships]]<br /> [[Category:Ships built on the River Tees]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{UK-aux-ship-stub}}</div> imported>Lyndaship