HMS Advantage (W 133)
HMS Advantage (W 133) was a of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Built in the United States, she was transferred to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease. Advantage served until the end of the war with the Royal Navy and was returned to the United States postwar. Sold to a Chinese merchant shipping company, she served successively as 109, Ming 309, and Kaoshiung until her 1965 scrapping. Design Advantage was long overall, with a beam of wide and a draught of . She displaced as designed and up to at full load. Advantage was powered by a one-shaft Fulton Iron Works vertical triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine rated at , two Babcock and Wilcox "D" type boilers, generating a top speed of , and two Turbo drive Ship's Service Generators. Advantage was armed with one 3 in (76mm)/50 caliber dual purpose gun and two single 20mm (.787 in) anti-aircraft guns. She carried a crew of five officers and 47 enlisted men. Service history Construction Advantage's keel was laid down on 8 August 1942. She was launched on 7 September 1942 as USS Advantage (ATR-41) by the Levingston Shipbuilding Company at Orange, Texas. Advantage was redesignated BATR-41 under the Lend-Lease