HMS Wakeful (A236)

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History
Sweden
NameHeracles
NamesakeHeracles
BuilderCochrane & Sons, Selby, North Yorkshire[2]
Launched1965 [1]
FateSold
NotesUsed as a tug
United Kingdom
NameDan
FateSold in 1974 for £6,000[1]
NotesUsed as a tug
United Kingdom
NameHMS Wakeful
CommissionedApril 1974
Decommissioned30 October 1987
Identificationpennant number A236
FateSold to Hellenic Salvage Tugboats
NotesUsed as a submarine target ship in the Clyde
Greece
NameAegean Pelago
OwnerHellenic Salvage Tugboats
AcquiredJune 1988
Identification
General characteristics
Displacement
Length38.9 m (127 ft 7 in)[1]
Beam10.7 m (35 ft 1 in)[1]
Draught4.7 m (15 ft 5 in)[1]
Propulsion2 x 9-cylinder Ruston diesels, producing 4,750 hp (3,540 kW)[2]
SpeedApproximately 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)[1]
Complement18[2]

HMS Wakeful was a support vessel of the Royal Navy from 1974 to 1987. She was built as an ocean-going tug by Cochrane & Sons, in Selby in 1965, and first served as a Swedish civilian tug under the name Heracles, or a variant thereof.[1]

The ship acted as part of the Fishery Protection Squadron in the North Sea for several years, but was eventually replaced when enough Island-class 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 , 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[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Moore, John Evelyn (1983). Jane's Fighting Ships 1983-84. p. 602. ISBN 0-7106-0774-1.
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