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}}{{Infobox Ship Career | Hide header= | Ship country= | Ship flag= | Ship name= RFA King Salvor | Ship namesake= | Ship ordered= 10 January 1941 | Ship builder=Wm. Simons & Co. Ltd., Renfrew | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number=752 | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= 17 May 1941 | Ship launched= 18 May 1942 | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= 17 July 1942 | Ship decommissioned= 1960 | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship struck= | Ship renamed=Kingfisher, April 1954 | Ship homeport= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship fate= Sold to the Argentine Navy, 1960 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox Ship Characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=King Salvor class salvage vessel | 1780|LT|t|0|lk=in|abbr=on}} full load | 217|ft|11|in|m|abbr=on}} | 37|ft|11|in|m|abbr=on}} | 15|ft|7|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion= 2 × 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engines | 12|kn|lk=in}} | Ship range= | Ship complement= 72 | Ship armament= 4 × 20 mm AA guns (4×1) | Ship aircraft= | Ship notes=
}} | RFA King Salvor (A291), initially HMS King Salvor (W191),[1] was the lead ship of a class of 12 salvage vessels of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. A 13th ship was completed as a submarine rescue vessel for the Royal Navy as {{HMS|Reclaim}}. King Salvor was built by Wm. Simons & Co. Ltd. of Renfrew as Allegiance,[2] launched on 18 May 1942, and commissioned on 17 July 1942. The ship converted into a submarine rescue bell and target ship, and renamed HMS Kingfisher in April 1954. Decommissioned in 1960, the ship was sold to the Argentine Navy in December 1960 and renamed Tehuelche in 1961, Guardiamarina Zicari in 1963, and disposed of in 1974. Notes1. ^http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/7713.html
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.hicon.pl/~pothkan/hhwn/Argentina-Aux.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-07-11 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201034437/http://hicon.pl/~pothkan/hhwn/Argentina-Aux.html |archivedate=1 February 2009 |df=dmy-all }}
External links- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080319103646/http://www.btinternet.com/~warship/Postwar/RFA/salvor.htm King Salvor class]
- http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/class.html?ID=375
{{King Salvor class salvage vessel}}{{DEFAULTSORT:King Salvor}}{{UK-aux-ship-stub}} 3 : King Salvor-class salvage vessels|Ships built on the River Clyde|1942 ships |