HMS Eminent (W 116)

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History
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Name: HMS Eminent (W116)
Builder: Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan
Laid down: 22 May 1942
Launched: 12 August 1942
Commissioned: 14 September 1942
Struck: 8 May 1946
Identification: IMO number:  5235870
Fate: Returned to the United States Navy, 13 June 1946
General characteristics
Type: Favourite-class tugboat
Displacement: 835 tons full
Length: 143 ft
Beam: 33 ft 10 in (extreme)
Draft: 13 ft 2 in (limiting)
Propulsion:

one General Motors Diesel-electric model 12-278A single Fairbanks Morse Main Reduction Gear Ship's Service Generators one Diesel-drive 60 kW 120 V D.C. one Diesel-drive 30 kW 120 V D.C.

single propeller, 1,500shp
Speed: 13 knots
Complement: 5 officers and 40 enlisted
Armament:

1 x 3"/50 caliber gun

2 x single 20mm gun mounts

HMS Eminent (W 116) was a Favourite-classtugboat of the Royal Navy during World War II.

Service history

Eminent was laid down on 22 May 1942 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan, as BAT-10, launched 12 August 1942 [1] and commissioned into the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease on 14 September 1942. She served throughout the war with the Royal Navy and was returned to the United States Navy on 13 June 1946 in Subic Bay and struck on 8 May. She was sold to Chinese owners on 24 September 1946, renamed Ming 105 and then renamed Ming 305. She was deleted in 1992 and scrapped in 2005. [2]

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References

  1. "US Navy Ocean Tugs AT ATA ATF ATR". www.shipbuildinghistory.com. Archived from the original on 21 December 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  2. "Rescue Tug (ATR)". www.navsource.org. Retrieved 8 April 2015.