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 .[ 1]
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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