HMS Aimwell (W 113)

History
United Kingdom
Builder: Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan
Launched: 8 April 1942
Commissioned: 6 June 1942
Struck: 1 May 1946
Fate: Returned to US Navy, transferred to merchant service in 1948, mined in Mekong River, 1975
General characteristics
Displacement: 852 tons light
Length: 143 ft (44 m)
Beam: 33 ft 4 in (10.16 m) (extreme)
Draught: 13 ft 2 in (4.01 m) (limiting)
Propulsion:

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

single propeller, 1,500shp
Speed: 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement: 5 officers and 40 enlisted
Armament:

HMS Aimwell (W 113) was a Favourite-class tugboat of the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

Service History

Aimwell was laid down on 15 November 1941 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan as BAT-7. She was delivered to the United States Navy and was transferred to the Royal Navy under the Lend-Lease Act on 6 June 1942. HMRT Aimwell was visited by Franklin D. Roosevelt on 26 January 1943, when Roosevelt was returning from the Casablanca Conference.[1] The tug was stationed with West Africa Command between 1942 and 1943.[2] She returned to American custody postwar on 30 March 1946. BAT-7 was struck on 1 May 1946 and sold to Moller on 6 January 1948. Renamed Patricia Moller, she was again renamed Golden Cape in 1952 and finally sold in 1971 to the Luzon Stevedoring Corporation.[3] She was renamed Hawkeye and was mined and sunk in the Mekong on 3 February 1975.[4]

References

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

  1. ↑ Roosevelt, Franklin D. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1943, Volume 12. p. 48.
  2. ↑ "Admiralty War Diaries, West Africa Command".
  3. ↑ "Aimwell (W-113)". Great Lakes Vessels Online Index. Bowling Green State University. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Navsource Service Ship Photo Archive".

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