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| Career |
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| Ordered: |
28 August 1939 |
| Laid down: |
14 May 1940 |
| Launched: |
12 March 1941 |
| Commissioned: |
4 July 1941 |
| Decommissioned: |
December 1972. Laid up at Singapore |
| Fate: |
Sold commercially in July 1973 with name unchanged.Scrapped at Hong Kong in March 1977. |
| Struck: |
1973 |
| General characteristics |
| Displacement: |
6700 tons full load |
| Length: |
365 ft 04 in |
| Beam: |
47 ft 00 in |
| Draught: |
22 ft 02 in |
| Propulsion: |
1 x 4 cyl Doxford diesel. 2800 bhp. Single shaft |
| Speed: |
13 knots (24 km/h) |
| Range: |
6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 13 knots (24 km/h) |
| Complement: |
40 |
| Armament: |
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| Aircraft: |
None |
| Motto: |
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RFA Gold Ranger (A130) was a fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.After World War 2 service she was in the Korean War and in support of the atomic tests at Mauro Atoll' She was later employed as a support ship for minesweepers during the Indonesean Confrontation.
