Unit History: RFA Wave Master

RFA Wave Master (A193) was a fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
 
 
 
WAVE MASTER  1944
 
8,199 grt; 16,650 tons nominal full displacement.
 
465ft 3ins x 64ft x 35ft 6ins (68ft o/a)
 
Built 1944  Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd, Sunderland.
 
Launched 20th May 1944 as EMPIRE SALISBURY
 
Three drum type boilers.
 
Two Parson type doubled reducing geared HP & LP Steam Turbines.
 
Single screw; 6,800 shp; 15 knots
 
1944 EMPIRE SALISBURY ; MOWT; managed by Eagle Oil Co.
 
1946 WAVE MASTER; Royal Fleet Auxiliary
 
Pennant : A193
 
1963 Scrapped Singapore