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Intensity (PG 93)


Call sign:
November - Xray - Papa - Mike

ex-HMS Milfoil (K 288)

British Flower Class Corvette/Action Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down 11 December 1941 as CN-311 by the Morton Engineering and Dry Dock Co., Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Named HMS Milfoil (K 288); Launched 5 August 1942; Acquired by the U. S. Navy at Quebec and commissioned USS Intensity (PG-93), 31 March 1943; Decommissioned, 3 October 1945 at Charleston, SC; Turned over to the Maritime Commission for disposal; Sold to Balleneros Ltd., Panama, Republic of Panama, converted to a whale catcher and renamed Olympic Promoter; Resold to a Japanese company in 1965 and renamed Otori Maru No. 5. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,375 t; Length 205'; Beam 33'; Draft 14' 7"; Speed 16.5 kts.; Complement 90; Armament two 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts; Propulsion two 3-drum express boilers, Canadian Vickers vertical triple expansion engine, one shaft.

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Intensity 135k Underway in the Atlantic, c. mid-1943.
Donation of James Jasper, 2000.
Official U.S. Coast Guard Photograph from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.
USCG Photo NH 97406.		 Naval Historical Center
Intensity 91k 7 September 1943 -
Intensity 147k 7 September 1943 -
Intensity 25k c. 1945
Line drawing		 .
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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
Fleet Reserve Association
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