Blue Ranger 1956 Suez 1956. From http://britains-smallwars.com/suez/untis.html - "The Blue Ranger stayed in Port Said after the fleet withdrew on Christmas Eve 1956. Many of the Maltese crew members of the salvage ships and supply ships requested to be sent back to Malta and their place was taken by RN personel mostly from the seaman branch.
On Boxing Day 1956 after the fleet was rushing back to have Xmas in Malta the ships left behind were entertained with a fly-over by Russian Migs.
On New Years Eve several large barges were set adrift to foul our moorings but were diverted to the entrance of the Canal and left to float into the Med.
The Blue Ranger left Port Said at the beginning of February 1957 and towed a "Z Craft" to Tobruk and then on to Malta.
Not much later the rest of the salvage craft finished their work in Port Said and made their way back to Malta and Gib."