The Fast Fleet Tankers Wave Knight and Wave Ruler are designed to support the Royal Navy in global operations including amphibious and anti-submarine operations.
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09:14 GMT - 19 June 2013
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RFA Wave Knight
RFA Wave Knight (A389) is a Wave Knight-class fast fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was launched in 2000 and accepted into service in 2003. She is the second ship to bear this name in RFA service. Wave Knight and her sister, Wave Ruler, replaced the elderly Olna and Olwen, 36, 000 ton fast fleet tankers built at Swan Hunter and Hawthorn Leslie respectively in the 1960s.
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