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]
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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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