RFA Gray Ranger

History


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 traveling 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 5 Sep: USS Gregory, USS Little 6 Sep: Anshun 7 Sep: HMCS Raccoon 9 Sep: USCGC Muskeget 10 Sep: American Leader, Arno 11 Sep: HMCS Charlottetown, Empire Dawn, Yayoi 12 Sep: Hektoria, 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 25 Sep: Empire Bell, HMS Somali, U-253, HMAS Voyager 26 Sep: HMS Veteran 27 Sep: Stephen Hopkins, Stier, U-165 29 Sep: Empire Avocet

Other incidents	2 Sep: U-626 3 Sep: USS Wakefield 8 Sep: USS Wakefield 10 Sep: Kuroshio Maru 15 Sep: USS O'Brien 20 Sep: HMS Somali 23 Sep: HMAS Voyager

1941 1942 1943 August 1942 October 1942

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