HMS Wakeful (A236)
Appearance
History | |
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Sweden | |
Name | Herakles |
Namesake | Herakles |
Builder | Cochrane & Sons, Selby, North Yorkshire[2] |
Launched | 1965 [1] |
Fate | Sold |
Notes | Used as a tug |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Dan |
Fate | Sold in 1974 for £6,000[1] |
Notes | Used as a tug |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Wakeful |
Commissioned | April 1974 |
Decommissioned | 30 October 1987 |
Identification | Pennant number A236 |
Fate | Sold to Hellenic Salvage Tugboats |
Notes | Used as a submarine target ship in the Clyde |
Greece | |
Name | Aegean Pelagos |
Owner | Hellenic Salvage Tugboats |
Acquired | June 1988 |
Identification |
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General characteristics | |
Displacement | |
Length | 38.9 m (127 ft 7 in)[1] |
Beam | 10.7 m (35 ft 1 in)[1] |
Draught | 4.7 m (15 ft 5 in)[1] |
Propulsion | 2 x 9-cylinder Ruston diesels, producing 4,750 hp (3,540 kW)[2] |
Speed | Approximately 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)[1] |
Complement | 18[2] |
HMS Wakeful was a support vessel of the
tug under the name Herakles.[1]
The ship acted as part of the
patrol vessels were available.[1] After a £1.6 million refit at Chatham in 1976, she was assigned to HMS Neptune as a submarine tender, target ship and tug.[2][1]
She was replaced by HMS Sentinel, and decommissioned on 30 October 1987. She was sold to the Greek firm Hellenic Salvage Tugboats in June 1988, having sailed from Portsmouth for Greece the previous month, on 6 May 1988.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Olver, Jeremy (17 February 2001). "HMS Wakeful - Submarine Support Vessel". Royal Navy Postwar. Archived from the original on 25 December 2007. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
- ^ ISBN 0-7106-0774-1.