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