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USS Temptress (PG 62)



Temptress call sign:
Nan - Baker - Charlie - Fox

ex-HMS Veronica (K-37)

Temptress served the Navies of Great Britain and the United States.
British Flower Class Corvette/Temptress Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down in 1940 by Smith's Dock Co., Ltd., Middlesboro, England for the French Navy but taken over by Great Britian with the fall of France; Launched 17 October 1940; Placed in service by the Royal Navy as HMS Veronica (K-37); Transferred to the U.S. Navy 16 February 1942; Commissioned USS Temptress (PG-62), 21 March 1942 in England; Decommissioned 20 August 1945 at Chatham, England; Returned to the Royal Navy 26 August 1945; Struck from the Navy Register 19 September 1945; Sold in 1946 and entered mercantile service as Verolock; Sunk in January 1947; Salvaged and scrapped at Blyth, England in 1957.

Specifications: Displacement 1,375 t.; Length 205' 2"; Beam 33'; Draft 14' 7"; Speed 16.5 kts; Complement 87; Armament one 4"/50 gun mount, one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm gun mounts and two dct; Propulsion two 225psi Scotch boilers, one 2,750ihp Smith's Dock Co. verticle triple expansion engine, one shaft.

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