HMS Eminent

HMS Eminent (W 116) was a Favourite-class tugboat of the Royal Navy during World War II.

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Eminent (W116)
Builder	Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan
Laid down	22 May 1942
Launched	12 August 1942
Commissioned	14 September 1942
Stricken	8 May 1946
Identification	IMO number: 5235870
Fate	Returned to the United States Navy, 13 June 1946
General characteristics
Type	Favourite-class tugboat
Displacement	835 tons full
Length	143 ft
Beam	33 ft 10 in (extreme)
Draft	13 ft 2 in (limiting)
Propulsion	one General Motors Diesel-electric model 12-278A single Fairbanks Morse Main Reduction Gear Ship's Service Generators one Diesel-drive 60 kW 120 V D.C. one Diesel-drive 30 kW 120 V D.C. single propeller, 1,500shp
Speed	13 knots
Complement	45
Armament	1 x 3"/50 caliber gun 2 x single 20mm gun mounts

Service history

Eminent was laid down on 22 May 1942 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan, as BAT-10, launched 12 August 1942^[1] and commissioned into the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease on 14 September 1942. She served throughout the war with the Royal Navy and was returned to the United States Navy on 13 June 1946 in Subic Bay and struck on 8 May. She was sold to Chinese owners on 24 September 1946, renamed Ming 105 and then renamed Ming 305. She was deleted in 1992 and scrapped in 2005.^[2]