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 submarineU-435 on 22 September 1942 while travelling as part of Convoy QP 14.[1]
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