HMS Athene
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=HMS Athene 1943 AWM 302310.jpg |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag= {{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} |Ship class= {{sclass|Cameron|steamship}} |ship type= Aircraft Transport |Ship name=HMS Athene |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Company, Greenock, Scotland |Ship yard number=444 |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=1 October 1940 |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service=Returned to Clan Line, 1946 |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship captured= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship fate=Scrapped from 19 July 1963 |Ship homeport= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship displacement=10,700 tons |Ship length={{convert|487|ft|8|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (o.a.) |Ship beam={{convert|63|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} |Ship draught={{convert|28|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}} |Ship draft= |Ship propulsion= 2 × steam triple expansion engines; 2 × low pressure exhaust turbines; twin screw, 8,300 bhp |Ship speed= {{convert|17|kn|km/h}} |Ship range= |Ship endurance= |Ship test depth= |Ship boats= |Ship capacity= |Ship complement= |Ship time to activate= |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament=*1 × {{convert|4|in|m|3|abbr=on}} LA, 1 × 4 in Dual-purpose gun
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HMS Athene was a Royal Navy aircraft transport. She was a merchant conversion, requisitioned by the Navy during the Second World War and returned after its end. She is the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named after the Greek goddess Athene. She was broken up in 1963.
Career
She was originally built as the {{sclass|Cameron|steamship}} Clan Brodie, for the Clan Line at the yards of the Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Company Greenock, Scotland. The Navy requisitioned her and she was launched on 1 October 1940 as the aircraft transport HMS Athene.
Athene received a single catapult, and operated as a seaplane carrier in the South Atlantic over 1942/43.{{cite book |last=Cocker |first=M |title=Aircraft-carrying ships of the Royal Navy |page=126}}
In June 1943 Athene departed from San Diego bound for Pearl Harbor under escort by the Barnegat Class seaplane tender USS Chincoteague (AVP-24)A History of the u.s.s. Chincoteague (AVP-24), Cincpac File A7-1P, Serial 40654. National Archives
In 1946 the Navy returned her to Clan Line. She was reconverted for merchant service and served until 1963, when she was sold for scrap. She arrived in Hong Kong for breaking up on 19 July 1963.
See also
- {{HMS|Engadine|1941|6}}
Notes
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References
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050413073515/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=16159 HMS Athene at Clydebuilt.net]
- [http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/clanline5rev.html The wartime services of the Cameron class]
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Category:Auxiliary ships of the Royal Navy
Category:Cameron-class steamships
Category:Ships built on the River Clyde
Category:Ships of the Clan Line
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