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HMS Snapdragon
ex-USS Saucy (PG 65)



Saucy call sign:
Nan - Baker - Dog - William

ex-HMS Arabis (K 73)

Saucy served the Navies of Great Britain and the United States.
British Flower Class Corvette/Temptress Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down by Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, Northern Ireland for the French Navy but taken over with the fall of France; Renamed HMS Arabis (K 73); Launched, 14 February 1940; Transferred to the U.S. Navy under the Reverse Lend-Lease Program at Belfast 30 April 1942 and commissioned USS Saucy (PG-65) the same day; Decommissioned 20 August 1945 at Chetham, England; Returned to the Royal Navy, 25 August 1945 and recommissioned into Royal Navy as HMS Snapdragon; Struck from the Navy Register 19 September 1945; Sold into merchantile service in 1947 as SS Katina; Renamed SS Tewfik in 1950. Fate unknown.

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 Harland and Wolff verticle triple expansion engine, one shaft.

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