RFA Ocean Salvor (A492)

History


Name:	RFA Ocean Salvor
Ordered:	22 May 1942
Builder:	Wm. Simons & Co. Ltd., Renfrew
Yard number:	764
Laid down:	2 October 1942
Launched:	31 August 1943
Commissioned:	23 September 1943
Decommissioned:	November 1958
Fate:	Sold commercially, February 1960 Scrapped at Karachi, October 1967
General characteristics
Class and type:	King Salvor class salvage vessel
Displacement:	1,780 long tons (1,809 t) full load
Length:	217 ft 11 in (66.42 m)
Beam:	37 ft 11 in (11.56 m)
Draught:	15 ft 7 in (4.75 m)
Propulsion:	2 × 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engines
Speed:	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement:	72
Armament:	4 × 20 mm AA guns (4×1)

RFA Ocean Salvor (A492) was a salvage vessel of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

ASV Ocean Salvor was handed to Risdon Beazley Ltd. on delivery; they managed this ship and 29 other Admiralty Salvage Vessels until the end of the war when 25 were handed to the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service and three returned to the USA; two were war losses. They were never prefixed HMS as they were civilian manned.

External links

http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/7714.html

King Salvor-class salvage vessels

Royal Fleet Auxiliary	King Salvor Ocean Salvor Prince Salvor Salverdant Salvage Duke Salvalour Salveda Salventure Salvestor (ex-Assistance) Salvictor Salvigil Salviking Salviola Sea Salvor

Royal Navy	Reclaim Kingfisher (ex-King Salvor)

Argentine Navy	Tehuelche / Guardiamarina Zicari (ex-Kingfisher)

Turkish Navy	Imroz II / Cemil Parman (ex-Salviola)

List of miscellaneous ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary

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