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Ready (PG 67)
ex-HMS Calendula (K 28)



Ready call sign:
November - Zulu - Bravo - Papa

Ready served the Navies of Great Britain and the United States.

British Flower Class Corvette/Temptress Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down as the "Flower Class" corvette HMS Calendula (K 28) by Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, Northern Ireland; Launched in February 1940; Transferred to the U.S. Navy and commissioned USS Ready (PG-67), 12 March 1942 at Tilburg, England; Decommissioned 20 August 1945 at Harwich, England; Returned to the Royal Navy 23 August 1945; Struck from the Naval Register 17 September 1945; Sold 22 July 1946 and renamed Viklkla Cisernos; Renamed Villa Bens in 1949; Sold to the Spanish Government in 1963. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1375 t; Length 205'; Beam 33'; Draft 14' 7"; Speed 16.5 kts; Complement 90; Armament two 3"/50 dual purpose mounts, two 20mm guns, two dct, four dcp, one hedgehog dcp; Propulsion two 3-drum express boilers, 2,750ihp vertical triple expansion Harland and Wolff engine, one shaft.

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Flower Class Corvette 168k "Escort Vessel (Corvette) - (Flower Class) - With Extended Forecastle, Increased Sheer, & Fuller Lines Fwd."
U.S. Navy preliminary design plan, copied from Smith Dock Co., Ltd., Drawing No. 232. This plan, dated April 1941, is for a modification of the British "Flower" class corvette. Scale of the original drawing is not given, but appears to be 1/16" = 1'.
The original plan is in the 1939-1944 "Spring Styles Book" held by the Naval Historical Center.
U.S. Navy photo S-511-30		 Naval Historical Center
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
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