RFA Oligarch ( 10,000 ton Class Oiler) 1918

Convoy                 Depart                                             Arrive

OA.7      Southend 19th September 1939 – Convoy dispersed 22nd September 1939

OB.116  Liverpool 25th March 1940 – Convoy dispersed (no date available)
               (Joined from the Clyde)

HX.39     Halifax 30th April 1940 – Liverpool 15th May 1940
               (Detached to Scapa Flow with a cargo of FFO)

WN.153   Oban 15th July 1941 – Methil 18th July 1941
                (Joined from the Clyde, bound for Scapa Flow, then Seidisfjord as Station Oiler)

QP.14     Archangel 13th September 1942 – Loch Ewe 26th September 1942
               (Escort oiler)

PQ.18     Loch Ewe 2nd September 1942 – Archangel 21st September 1942
               (Spitsbergen oiler, later to Murmansk)

WN.358  Loch Ewe 7th November 1942 – Methil 9th November 1942

EN.172   Methil 12th December 1942 – Loch Ewe 14th December 1942

JN.51A   Loch Ewe 15th December 1942 – Kola Inlet 25th December 1942

RA.51     Kola Inlet 30th December 1942 – Loch Ewe 11th January 1942

RU.57     Reykjavik 12th January 1943 – Loch Ewe 15th January 1943

JW.52     Loch Ewe 17th January 1943 – Kola Inlet 27th January 1943

RA.53     Kola Inlet 1st March 1943 – Loch Ewe 14th March 1943
               (detached to Seidisfjord)

WN.405  Loch Ewe 19th March 1943 – Methil 21st March 1943

FS.1069  Methil 21st March 1943 – Southend 23rd March 1943
                (detached o the Tyne)

EN.236    Methil 30th May 1943 – Loch Ewe 1st June 1943
                (detached to Oban)

OS.49KM Liverpool 4th June 1943 – Convoy split 13th June 1943
                 (joined from Oban)

KMS.16G ex OS.49/KMS.16 13th January 1943 – Gibraltar 15th January 1943

GTX.3     Gibraltar 21st June 1943 – Port Said 4th July 1943
                (to Tobruk after torpedo damage)

VGS.13   Hampton Roads 27th July 1943 – Port Said 24th July 1943

RFA Oligarch was torpedoed 40 miles WNW of Derna by U 453 under the command of Korvettan Leutenant Egon Reiner Von Schlippenbach whilst on passage in Convoy GTX.3, she managed to make it to Tobruk under her own power, where she was used as a temporary fuel hulk, the ship then joined Convoy VGS.13 for passage to Alexandria where she was used as a fuel hulk .