RFA Green Ranger

50.972°N 4.535°W / 50.972; -4.535 (wrecksite of RFA Green Ranger)

History
United Kingdom
Name	Green Ranger
Ordered	28 August 1939
Builder	Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Dundee
Yard number	391
Laid down	23 September 1940
Launched	21 August 1941[1]
In service	4 December 1941
Out of service	17 November 1962
Fate	Wrecked on Gunpath Rock, Devon 17 November 1962
Notes	[2]
General characteristics
Class & type	Ranger-class fleet support tanker
Displacement	6,700 long tons (6,808 t) full load
Length	355 ft 3 in (108.28 m) o/a[1]
Beam	47 ft (14 m)[1]
Draught	20 ft 2 in (6.15 m)[1]
Installed power	3,500 shaft horsepower (2,600 kilowatts)
Propulsion	1 × 6-cylinder B&W diesel engine 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 Green Ranger was a Ranger-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

On 24 September 1946, Green Ranger was struck by a torpedo in Portland Harbour, Dorset. Although holed below the waterline, she remained afloat.^[3] She was wrecked on the Hartland peninsula, on a large rock, called Gunpath Rock, on 17 November 1962. She broke her tow from the tug that was taking her to be refitted in Cardiff, and drifted onto the rocks. Her skeleton crew of seven were rescued by the Hartland Lifesaving Company, with their breeches buoy.^[4] The ship became a total loss, and her remains are still visible at low tide.^[5]