HMS Cheerly

two Foster Wheeler "D"-type boilers, 200psi, Sat two Turbo drive Ships Service Generators, 60 kW 120 V D.C. HMS Cheerly (W 153) was a Favourite-class tugboat of the Royal Navy during World War II.

Cheerly was laid down in early 1943 at the Levingston Shipbuilding Company in Orange, Texas, as ATR-95, launched 23 July 1943 and commissioned into the Royal Navy as Cheerly under Lend-Lease on 18 January 1944.

Cheerly served as a rescue tug with convoys in the English Channel and also Gibraltar convoy ON273.

[1] She was returned to the United States Navy on 19 February 1946, struck on 12 April 1946 and sold for merchant service in 1948.

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