Career | |
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Name: | Blue Ranger |
Ordered: | 28 August 1939 |
Laid down: | 26 October 1939 |
Launched: | 29 January 1941 |
Commissioned: | 5 June 1941 |
Decommissioned: | June 1966 Laid up at Devonport |
Struck: | 1975 |
Fate: | Sold commercially in January 1972 and renamed Korytsa Arrived Alliaga for demolition, 8 September 1987 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Ranger-class fleet support tanker |
Displacement: | 6,700 long tons (6,808 t) full load |
Length: | 365 ft 10 in (111.51 m) |
Beam: | 47 ft (14 m) |
Draught: | 20 ft 2 in (6.15 m) |
Propulsion: | 1 × 6-cylinder B&W diesel 3,500 shp (2,600 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 Blue Ranger (A157) was a fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.