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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
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 .[1]
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:
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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