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Action (PG 86)
ex-HMS Comfrey (K 277)
ex-CN-304



Action call sign:
November - Zulu - Bravo - Charlie
British Flower Class Corvette/Action Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down 6 January 1942 as CN-304 by the Collingwood Shipyard, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada; Renamed HMS Comfrey (K 277); Launched 28 July 1942; Named Action 13 August 1942; Acquired by the U.S. Navy 21 November 1942; Commissioned USS Action (PG-86), 22 November 1942; Decommissioned 6 September 1945 at Charleston, SC; Struck from the Navy list 17 September 1945; Transferred to the Maritime Commission in October 1946; Sold for conversion to a whale-catcher in 1949; Sold in 1952 to J. Presthus, Bergen, Norway; Converted to a cargo vessel and renamed Arne Presthus. 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 Port Arthur Shipbuilding 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
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