RFA Wave Conqueror was a Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary that was built in 1943, as SS Empire Law by the Furness Shipbuilding Company, Haverton Hill, United Kingdom.
![]() RFA Wave Conqueror, pictured in 1952.
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Operator | Royal Fleet Auxiliary |
Builder | Furness Shipbuilding Company, Haverton Hill |
Launched | 27 November 1943 |
Honours and awards | Korea, 1951–53 |
Fate | Scrapped in 1960 |
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 | 2 x Metrovick double reduction geared steam turbines, 6,800 hp (5,100 kW). |
Speed | 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h) |
She saw service during the Korean War and was scrapped in 1960.
References
edit- Colledge, J.J. Ships of the Royal Navy: An Historical Index Volume 2: Navy-built Trawlers, Drifters, Tugs and Requisitioned Ships. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
- Rottman, Gordon L (2002). Korean War Order of Battle: United States, United Nations, and Communist Ground, Naval, and Air Forces, 1950-1953. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-275-97835-4.
- Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II. New York: Crescent Books. 1989.