Name RFA Ocean Salvor Yard number 764 Commissioned 23 September 1943 Launched 31 August 1943 Draft 4.75 m | Ordered 22 May 1942 Laid down 2 October 1942 Construction started 2 October 1942 Length 66 m | |
Builder Wm. Simons & Co. Ltd., Renfrew | ||
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.
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