HMS Athlete (W 150)

History

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 tugboat 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]

Favourite-class tugboats

Royal Navy	Advantage Aimwell Aspirant Athlete Bold Cheerly Destiny Eminent Emphatic Favourite Flare Flaunt Integrity Lariat Masterful Mindful Oriana Patroculus Tancred Vagrant Weazel

Royal Australian Navy	Reserve Sprightly Tancred

Preceded by: Assurance class Followed by: Bustler class

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in July 1945

Shipwrecks	2 Jul: Empire Fal 4 Jul: Bahia 8 Jul: HNLMS O 19 11 Jul: Sakura 14 Jul: I-351, Tachibana 15 Jul: Francis Preston Blair, HMS Ludlow, HMS Maori, Walter L M Russ 16 Jul: USS Gamble, I-13 17 Jul: HMS Athlete 18 Jul: Kasuga, Yakaze 20 Jul: Kiyokawa Maru 24 Jul: Aoba, Amagi, Hyūga, Iwate, Settsu, HMS Squirrel, Tone, USS Underhill 25 Jul: Kotobuki Maru, PB-2 26 Jul: HMS Vestal 28 Jul: USS Callaghan, Haruna, Ise, Izumo, Ōyodo 30 Jul: Hatsushimo, USS Indianapolis, Okinawa Unknown date: HMCS St. Francis

1944 1945 1946 June 1945 August 1945

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