An item reported that the British 16.400 tons tanker Wave Sovereign underway from Singapore towards Adaban was ordered on last Monday to change course and load at Aden a cargo of fuel oil for England.(1) She was one of the largest tanker possessed by the British Admiralty with a cargo capacity of more as 12.000 tons.
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1. Belonged to the RFA. Her building at the shipyard of the Furness Shipbuilding Company at Haverton Hill-on-Tees was ordered on 29 May 1943, laid down on 10 May a year later, launched on 20 November 1945 and commissioned on 28 February 1946, decommissioned on 1966 was she in May of the next year broken up. With a tonnage of 8.187 gross registers tons and a displacement of 16,483 (full load) tonnes were her dimensions 150,16 x 19,61 x 8,69 metres or 492’8” x 64’4”x 28’6”. Her turbines and boilers supplied 8.600 hp allowing a speed of 14,5 knots.
