HMS Emphatic (W 154)

BRP Ifugao underway around 1953
History
Name:	HMS Emphatic (W154)
Builder:	Levingston Shipbuilding Company, Orange, Texas
Launched:	18 August 1943
Commissioned:	27 January 1944
Struck:	8 May 1946
Fate:	Returned to the United States Navy, 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 60Kw 120V D.C. one Diesel-drive 30Kw 120V D.C. single propeller, 1,500shp
Speed:	13 knots
Complement:	5 officers and 40 enlisted
Armament:	1 x 3"/50 caliber gun

HMS Emphatic (W 154) was a Favourite-class tugboat of the Royal Navy during World War II. Emphatic was built in the United States and transferred to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease. She participated in the Normandy landings and was returned to the United States Navy postwar. She was transferred to the Philippine Navy in 1948 and received the name Ifugao. She was deleted in 1979.

Service History

Emphatic was laid down in 1943 by the Levingston Shipbuilding Company in Orange, Texas as ATR-96, launched 18 August 1943 and commissioned into the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease on 27 January 1944 as HMS Emphatic (W 154).^[1] She served through the war with the Royal Navy. During the Normandy landings, she towed Mulberry harbour pontoons. ^[2]

The ship was returned to the United States Navy in 1946. She was transferred to the Philippine Navy in July 1948 and renamed BRP Ifugao (AQ-44).^[3] The tug was deleted in 1979.^[4]

References

1. "HMS Emphatic (W 154) of the Royal Navy - British Rescue Tug of the Favourite class - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net". uboat.net. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
2. Buckhingham, Mike (4 September 2009). "70 YEARS ON: Garndiffaith man's war memories will never fade". South Wales Argus. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
3. "ATR-96 HMS Emphatic (W-154)". www.navsource.org. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
4. "British, French and Dutch Tugs". www.thamestugs.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-04-10.