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 .
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: 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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