Name HMS Athene Launched 1 October 1940 Displacement 9.707 million kg Builder Greenock | Yard number 444 Weight 10,870 tons Draft 8.69 m | |
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Class and type Cameron-class steamship Out of service Returned to Clan Line, 1946 Fate Scrapped from 19 July 1963 Length 487.75 ft (148.67 m) (o.a.) | ||
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.
Career
She was originally built as the Cameron-class steamship Clan Brodie, for the Clan Line at the yards of the Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Company Greenock, Scotland. She was requisitioned by the Navy and was launched on 1 October 1940 as the aircraft transport HMS Athene.
Athene operated as a Seaplane Carrier in the South Atlantic over 1942/43. She was fitted with a single catapult.
She survived the war and was returned to Clan Line in 1946. 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.