RFA Ocean Salvor

History
United Kingdom
Name	RFA Ocean Salvor
Operator	Risdon Beazley
Ordered	22 May 1942
Builder	Wm. Simons & Co. Ltd., Renfrew
Yard number	764
Laid down	2 October 1942
Launched	31 August 1943
In service	23 September 1943
Out of service	November 1958
Identification	Pennant number: A492
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 King Salvor-class ocean salvage ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), the naval auxiliary fleet of the United Kingdom.

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. These ships were never prefixed HMS as they were civilian crewed.

External links

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