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{{Short description|1944 Wave-class oiler of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2018}}

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|Ship country=United Kingdom
|Ship flag=[[File:British-Royal-Fleet-Auxiliary-Ensign.svg|60px|RFA Ensign]]
|Ship name=RFA ''Wave King''
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|Ship ordered=
|Ship builder=[[Harland & Wolff]], [[Govan]]
|Ship yard number=1222<ref name=Tom>{{cite book|last1=McCluskie|first1=Tom|title=The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff|date=2013|publisher=The History Press|location=Stroud|isbn=9780752488615|page=154}}</ref>
|Ship laid down=23 March 1943
|Ship launched=6 April 1944
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|Ship completed=22 July 1944<ref name=Tom/>
|Ship commissioned=22 July 1944
|Ship decommissioned=1956
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|Ship fate=Scrapped in April 1960
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|Ship tonnage={{GRT|8,159|disp=long}}<ref name=LReg>{{cite web |url=https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/44/44b1320.pdf |title=Lloyd's Register |author=Lloyds |date=1944–45 |publisher=Lloyd's Register (through PlimsollShipData) |access-date=9 October 2013}}</ref>
|Ship displacement=16,483 [[long ton]]s full load
|Ship length={{convert|473|ft|8|in|m|2|abbr=on}}<ref name=LReg />
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|Ship propulsion=Parsons double reduction geared turbines,3 drum type boilers, {{convert|6800|hp|kW|abbr=on}}.
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'''RFA ''Wave King'' (A182)''' was a [[Wave class oiler|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.<ref name=Gill>{{cite book |last=Gill |first=G. Hermon |title=Royal Australian Navy 1939–1942 | series =Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 2 – Navy | volume =2 |year=1968 |publisher=Australian War Memorial |location=Canberra |pages=604, 612 |url=http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/second_world_war/volume.asp?levelID=67911 }}</ref> 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 [[Battle of Okinawa|Okinawa]] campaign.<ref name=Gill />

''Wave King'' struck a rock north of [[São Luís, Maranhão|São Luís de Maranhão]], [[Brazil]], on 9 August 1956 and suffered severe damage.<ref>{{cite web |title=RFA Wave King |url=https://historicalrfa.uk/rfa-wave-king/ |website=historicalrfa.uk |access-date=24 November 2023}}</ref> She arrived at [[Barrow-in-Furness]] on 16 April 1960 for scrapping.

==References==
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{{Wave class oiler}}
{{Empire ships}}
{{1956 shipwrecks}}

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[[Category:Wave-class oilers]]
[[Category:Tankers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary]]
[[Category:1944 ships]]
[[Category:Ministry of War Transport ships]]
[[Category:Ships built in Govan]]
[[Category:Ships built by Harland and Wolff]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in 1956]]

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RFA Wave King - Revision history

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