HMS Advantage (W 133)

History
United Kingdom
Builder: Levingston Shipbuilding Company, Orange, Texas
Launched: 7 September 1942
Commissioned: 23 April 1943
Fate: Transferred to merchant service
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 Fulton Iron Works vertical triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine two Babcock & Wilcox "D"-type boilers, 200psi, Sat two Turbo drive Ships Service Generators, 60kw 120V D.C.

single propeller, 1,600shp
Speed: 12.2 knots (22.6 km/h; 14.0 mph)
Complement: 5 officers and 47 enlisted
Armament:

HMS Advantage (W 133) was a Favourite-class tugboat of the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

Service History

She was built in 1942-43 by the Levingston Shipbuilding Company at Orange, Texas as USS Advantage (ATR-41). Redesignated BATR-41 under the Lend-Lease program, she was transferred to the Royal Navy around 23 April 1943. She served throughout World War II with the Royal Navy and was returned to the US Navy in either late 1945 or early 1946. Advantage reverted to BATR-41 after her name was withdrawn. She was struck on 12 April 1946 and sold to the Chinese Board of Supplies.[1]

The tug was sold to the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company in Shanghai on 24 September 1946. Renamed 109 on 31 July 1948, she was again renamed Ming 309 later. She was finally renamed Kaoshiung in 1949 and scrapped in 1965.[2]

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

  1. "Navsource HMRT Advantage W133".
  2. "Ocean Tugs".
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