HMS Cheerly (W 153)

HMS Cheerly (W 153) was a Favourite-class tugboat of the Royal Navy during World War II.

History
United Kingdom
BuilderLevingston Shipbuilding Company, Orange, Texas
Launched23 July 1943
Commissioned18 January 1944
Stricken12 April 1946
FateReturned to US Navy, 19 February 1946 and sold for merchant service 1948
General characteristics
Displacement852 tons light
Length165 ft 6 in (50.44 m)
Beam33 ft 4 in (10.16 m)
Draught15 ft 6 in (4.72 m)
Propulsionone 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
Speed12.2 knots (22.6 km/h; 14.0 mph)
Complement52
Armament1 x 3"/50 caliber gun * 2 x single 20mm AA guns

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]

References
  1. "www.thamestugs.co.uk". www.thamestugs.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  2. "Rescue Tug (ATR)". www.navsource.org. 6 June 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
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