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USS Spry (PG 64)



Call sign:
Nan - Baker - George - Zebra

ex-HMS Hibiscus (K 24)


Spry served the Navies of Great Britain and the United States.
British Flower Class Corvette/Temptress Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down in 1941 by Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, Northern Ireland for the French Navy but taken over with the fall of France; Named HMS Hibiscus (K 24); Launched, 6 April 1940; Transferred to the U.S. Navy at Leith, Scotland 2 May 1942 and commissioned the same day as USS Spry (PG-64); Decommissioned, 20 August 1945 at Chatham, England; Returned to the Royal Navy, 26 August 1945; Struck from the Navy Register 17 September 1945; Sold into mercantile service in 1947 by the British as Madonna; Sold for scrap in 1955 at Hong Kong.

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 guns, four dcp; Propulsion two-225psi Scotch boilers, one verticle triple expansion Harland and Wolff engine, one shaft.

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for full size image		 Size Image Description Source
HMS Hibiscus (K 24)
Spry 81k Royal Navy photo Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II
USS Spry (PG 64)
Spry 114k 20 August 1943
U.S. Navy photo		 Joe Radigan
Spry 90k 14 June 1944
Cooper River off the U.S. Navy Yard Charleston, SC
Starboard quarter view
U.S. Navy photo 1612-44		 Robert Hall
Spry 71k 14 June 1944
Cooper River off the U.S. Navy Yard Charleston, SC
Stern view
U.S. Navy photo 1613-44		 Robert Hall
Spry 125k 14 June 1944
Cooper River off the U.S. Navy Yard Charleston, SC
Port bow, down view
U.S. Navy photo 1615-44		 Robert Hall
Spry 99k 14 June 1944
Cooper River off the U.S. Navy Yard Charleston, SC
Starboard broadside, down view
U.S. Navy photo 1616-44		 Robert Hall
Spry 139k 14 June 1944
Cooper River off the U.S. Navy Yard Charleston, SC
Port quarter, down view
U.S. Navy photo 1617-44		 Robert Hall
Spry 141k 14 June 1944
Cooper River off the U.S. Navy Yard Charleston, SC
Stern, down view
U.S. Navy photo 1618-44		 Robert Hall
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