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USS Courage (PG 70)
ex-HMS Heartsease (K 15)
ex-HMS Pansy



Courage call sign:
Nan - Dog - Oboe - Nan

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

British Flower Class Corvette/Temptress Class Patrol Gunboat: Built 1939 as the "Flower Class" corvette HMS Pansy by Harland and Wolff Ltd., Belfast, Northern Ireland; Launched 20 April 1940; Renamed Heartsease (K 15); Acquired by the U.S. Navy 18 March 1942; Commissioned USS Courage (PG-70), 3 April 1942; Decommissioned 22 August 1945 at Harwich, England and returned to the Royal Navy 23 August 1945; Sold into Merchant service 22 July 1946; Named Roskva in 1951; Renamed Douglas in 1956; Renamed Seabird in 1958; Lost in December 1958.

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 Sunderland Engine Co. 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
Courage 102k c. 1944
Greenland
From the collection of Ira V. Miller		 Bill Graham
Courage 99k c. 1944
Looking aft toward the bow gun and bridge
Photo by and from the collection of Ira V. Miller		 Bill Graham
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