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HMS Statice (K 281)
ex-Vim (PG 99)


Vim served only in the Royal Navy.
British Flower Class Corvette/Action Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down in 1943 as Vim (PG 99) for the U.S. Navy at Collingwood Shipyard, Collingwood, United Kingdom; Launched, 1 April 1943; Assigned to the Royal Navy 10 April 1943 under the Lend-Lease Program; Transferred to the Royal Navy 20 September 1943 and commissioned HMS Statice (K-281); Returned to U.S. Navy custody, 21 June 1946; Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal; Sold, 7 May 1947; Scrapped in 1961 at Hamburg, Germany.

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 240psi 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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