Dates: 1946 - 1972

WAVE BARON 1946

8,182 grt; 11,900 dwt; 16,483 tons full displacement.

465ft 3ins (492ft 6ins o/a) x 64ft x 35ft 6ins (68ft o/a)

Built 1946 Furness Shipbuilding Ltd, Haverton Hill-on-Tees.

Launched February 19th 1946 as EMPIRE FLODDEN

Three drum type boilers.

Two Metrovick type doubled reducing geared HP & LP Steam Turbines.

Single screw; 6,800 shp; 15 knots

1946 WAVE BARON; Royal Fleet Auxiliary

Pennant : A242

1950/3 Served in the Korean War

1954 July : Escorted damaged WAVE COMMANDER into Gibraltar.

1961 Refitted and modernised.

1969 Laid up at Devonport.

1972 Sold and Scrapped at Bilbao.

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