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USS Tenacity (PG 71)



Tenacity call sign:
Nan - How - Able - Dog

ex-HMS Candytuft (K 09)

Tenacity served the Navies of Great Britain and the United States.
British Flower Class Corvette/Temptress Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down in 1940 as the "Flower Class" corvette HMS Candytuft (K-09) by Grangemouth Dry Dock Co., Grangemouth, Scotland; Launched, 8 July 1940; Acquired by the U. S. Navy, 4 March 1942 at New York, NY; Commissioned USS Tenacity (PG-71), 11 June 1942; Decommissioned, 22 August 1945 at Harwich, England and returned to the Royal Navy, 26 August 1945; Struck from the Navy Register 17 September 1945; Sold into mercantile service 9 July 1946; Renamed SS Maw Hwa in 1947. 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 Northeastern Marine Engine Co. verticle triple expansion engine, one shaft.

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Tenacity 48k 26 June 1942
New York Navy Yard
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Tenacity 46k 26 June 1942
New York Navy Yard
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