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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|1946 Wave-class oiler of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary}}<br />
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|Ship name=RFA ''Wave Sovereign''<br />
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|Ship ordered=29 May 1943<br />
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'''RFA ''Wave Sovereign'' (A211)''' was a [[Wave class oiler|Wave-class]] fleet support tanker of the [[Royal Fleet Auxiliary]] and was built at [[Haverton Hill]] by the [[Furness Shipbuilding Company]].<br />
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On 8 December 1948, ''Wave Sovereign'' was in collision with the destroyer {{HMS|Corunna||2}} while refuelling ''Corunna''.<ref>{{harvnb|English|2008|p=167}}</ref> She was extensively modified in the early 1960s.<br />
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She was decommissioned in 1966 and laid up at [[Singapore]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Straits Times|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19660115-1.2.68.aspx|accessdate=4 May 2015|date=15 Jan 1966}}</ref> ''Wave Sovereign'' was scrapped there in May 1967.<ref>{{cite web |title=RFA Wave Sovereign |url=https://historicalrfa.uk/rfa-wave-sovereign/ |website=historicalrfa.uk |access-date=24 November 2023}}</ref><br />
[[File:RFA Wave Sovereign HMCS Nootka (DDE213) HMS Ocean (R68) off Korea 1952.jpg|thumb|left|''Wave Sovereign'' replenishing [[HMS Ocean (R68)|HMS ''Ocean'']] and [[HMCS Nootka (R96)|HMCS ''Nootka'']] off Korea, 1952.]]<br />
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* {{cite book |last=English |first=John |title=Obdurate to Daring: British Fleet Destroyers 1941–45 |publisher=World Ship Society |location=Windsor, UK |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-9560769-0-8}}<br />
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