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HMS Charon (W 109)

Rescue Tug of the Assurance class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeRescue Tug
ClassAssurance 
PennantW 109 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down14 Aug, 1941 
Launched21 Nov, 1941 
Commissioned10 Jun, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryHMRT Charon was renamed Alligator when she became a Dockyard Tug in 1947. Scrapped at Tipnor in January 1959.  

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