RFA_Gray_Ranger Knowpia

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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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