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RFA Wave Sovereign (A211)
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RFA Wave Sovereign (A211) was a Wave-class
fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
and was built at Haverton Hill by Furness Shipbuilding. She was extensively modified in the early 1960s.
She was decommissioned in 1966 and laid up at Singapore
. Wave Sovereign was scrapped there in May 1967.
Wave class oiler
The Wave class was a class of replenishment oilers built for service supporting the Royal Navy during the later years of the Second World War...
fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Royal Fleet Auxiliary
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary is a civilian-manned fleet owned by the British Ministry of Defence. The RFA enables ships of the United Kingdom Royal Navy to maintain operations around the world. Its primary role is to supply the Royal Navy with fuel, ammunition and supplies, normally by replenishment...
and was built at Haverton Hill by Furness Shipbuilding. She was extensively modified in the early 1960s.
She was decommissioned in 1966 and laid up at Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
. Wave Sovereign was scrapped there in May 1967.