Unit History: RFA Wave Conqueror
WAVE CONQUEROR 1943
8,128 grt; 16,650 tons nominal full displacement.
465ft 3ins (492ft 6ins o/a) x 64ft x 35ft 6ins (68ft o/a)
Built 1943 Furness Shipbuilding Ltd, Haverton Hill-on-Tees.
Launched 27th November 1943 as EMPIRE LAW
Three drum type boilers.
Two Metrovick type doubled reducing geared HP & LP Steam Turbines
Single screw; 6,800 shp; 15 knots
1943 EMPIRE LAW ; MOWT ; managed Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co.
1946 WAVE CONQUEROR, Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Pennant : A245
1958 H.G.Pounds, Portsmouth, oil hulk at Le Havre
1960 Sold and Scrapped Spezia.
8,128 grt; 16,650 tons nominal full displacement.
465ft 3ins (492ft 6ins o/a) x 64ft x 35ft 6ins (68ft o/a)
Built 1943 Furness Shipbuilding Ltd, Haverton Hill-on-Tees.
Launched 27th November 1943 as EMPIRE LAW
Three drum type boilers.
Two Metrovick type doubled reducing geared HP & LP Steam Turbines
Single screw; 6,800 shp; 15 knots
1943 EMPIRE LAW ; MOWT ; managed Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co.
1946 WAVE CONQUEROR, Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Pennant : A245
1958 H.G.Pounds, Portsmouth, oil hulk at Le Havre
1960 Sold and Scrapped Spezia.
