Unit History: RFA Wave Premier
WAVE PREMIER 1946
8,200 grt; 16,650 tons nominal full displacement.
465ft 3ins x 64ft x 35ft 6ins (68ft o/a)
Built 1946 Furness Shipbuilding Ltd, Haverton Hill-on-Tees.
Launched 27th June 1946
Three drum type boilers.
Two Parson type doubled reducing geared HP & LP Steam Turbines.
Single screw; 6,800 shp; 15 knots
1946 WAVE PREMIER; Royal Fleet Auxilairy
Pennant : A129
1950/3 Served in the Korean War
1960 Sold for scrap in 1960 to Rosyth for ?63,000
