Favourite-class tugboat of the Royal Navy
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History |
United Kingdom |
Builder | Levingston Shipbuilding Company, Orange, Texas |
Launched | 23 July 1943 |
Commissioned | 18 January 1944 |
Stricken | 12 April 1946 |
Fate | Returned to US Navy, 19 February 1946 and sold for merchant service 1948 |
General characteristics |
Displacement | 852 tons light |
Length | 165 ft 6 in (50.44 m) |
Beam | 33 ft 4 in (10.16 m) |
Draught | 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) |
Propulsion | one Prescott Co. vertical triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine
two Foster Wheeler "D"-type boilers, 200psi, Sat
two Turbo drive Ships Service Generators, 60 kW 120 V D.C.
single propeller, 1,600 hp |
Speed | 12.2 knots (22.6 km/h; 14.0 mph) |
Complement | 52 |
Armament | 1 x 3"/50 caliber gun * 2 x single 20mm AA guns |
HMS Cheerly (W 153) was a Favourite-class tugboat of the Royal Navy during World War II.
Service history
Cheerly was laid down in early 1943 at the Levingston Shipbuilding Company in Orange, Texas, as ATR-95, launched 23 July 1943 and commissioned into the Royal Navy as Cheerly under Lend-Lease on 18 January 1944. Cheerly served as a rescue tug with convoys in the English Channel and also Gibraltar convoy ON273.[1] She was returned to the United States Navy on 19 February 1946, struck on 12 April 1946 and sold for merchant service in 1948.[2]
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