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1941 Ranger-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
History
United Kingdom
Name Gray Ranger
Ordered 28 August 1939
Builder
Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company
Laid down 28 June 1940
Launched 27 May 1941
Commissioned 25 September 1941
Fate Sunk, 22 September 1942
General characteristics
Class and type
Ranger-class
fleet support tanker
Displacement 6,700
long tons (6,808 t) full load
Length 365 ft 4 in (111.35 m)
Beam 47 ft (14 m)
Draught 22 ft 2 in (6.76 m)
Propulsion
1 × 4-cylinder Doxford diesel
2,800 shp (2,100 kW)
1 shaft
Speed 13
knots (15 mph; 24 km/h)
Range 6,000
nmi (11,000 km) at 13 kn (15 mph; 24 km/h)
Complement 40
RFA Gray Ranger was a British fleet support tanker of the
Royal Fleet Auxiliary which served in World War II. She was torpedoed and sunk in the
Greenland Sea by the German
submarine
U-435 on 22 September 1942 while travelling as part of
Convoy QP 14 .
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References
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in September 1942
Shipwrecks
1 Sep:
U-756
2 Sep:
U-222
3 Sep:
U-162 ,
U-705
4 Sep:
Kashino ,
Kaimei Maru
5 Sep:
USS Gregory ,
USS Little
6 Sep:
Anshun
7 Sep:
HMCS Raccoon
8 Sep:
USS YP-74
9 Sep:
USCGC Muskeget ,
YP-346
10 Sep:
American Leader ,
Arno
11 Sep:
HMCS Charlottetown ,
Empire Dawn ,
Yayoi
12 Sep:
Hektoria ,
RMS Laconia ,
U-88
13 Sep:
Empire Beaumont ,
Oliver Ellsworth ,
Oregonian ,
Stalingrad
14 Sep:
Atheltemplar ,
HMS Coventry ,
Mary Luckenbach ,
HMCS Ottawa ,
HMS Sikh ,
U-589
15 Sep:
U-261 ,
USS Wasp
16 Sep:
HMS Talisman ,
U-457
17 Sep:
Mae
19 Sep:
USS O'Brien
20 Sep:
Empire Hartebeeste
21 Sep:
U-446
22 Sep:
RFA Gray Ranger
23 Sep:
HMAS Siesta
24 Sep:
Antinous
25 Sep:
Empire Bell ,
HMS Somali ,
U-253 ,
HMAS Voyager
26 Sep:
I-33 ,
HMS Veteran
27 Sep:
Stephen Hopkins ,
Stier ,
U-165
30 Sep:
Empire Avocet
Other incidents
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