HMS Athlete (W 150)

Career (United Kingdom)
Builder: Levingston Shipbuilding Company, Orange, Texas
Launched: 18 May 1943
Commissioned: 15 November 1943
Struck: 17 September 1945
Fate: Mined and sunk off Leghorn 17 July 1945
General characteristics
Displacement:852 tons light
Length:143 ft (44 m)
Beam:33 ft 10 in (10.31 m)
Draught:13 ft 2 in (4.01 m)
Propulsion:two GM 12-278A Diesel-electric engines single propeller, 1,500 SHP
Speed:13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement:45
Armament:
  • 1 x 3"/50 caliber gun

HMS Athlete (W 150) was a Favourite class rescue tug of the Royal Navy during World War II.

Service History

Athlete was laid down in early 1943 at Levingston Shipbuilding Company in Orange, Texas as ATR-92, launched 18 May 1943 and commissioned into the Royal Navy under the Lend-Lease Act on 15 November 1943. Athlete served in the Mediterranean Fleet and was mined and sunk off Leghorn on 17 July 1945. [1]

References

  1. ↑ "ATR-92". Navsource. 28 April 2006. Retrieved 4 April 2015.