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HMS Willowherb (K 283)
ex-Vitality (PG 100)


Vitality served only in the Royal Navy.
British Flower Class Corvette/Temptress Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down for the U.S. Navy as Vitality (PG 100) at Midland Shipyard, United Kingdom; Assigned to the Royal Navy under the Lend-Lease Program; Launched, 15 April 1943; Transferred to the Royal Navy 30 August 1943 and commissioned HMS Willowherb (K-283); Returned to U.S. Navy custody, 11 June 1946; Turned over to the Maritime Commission for disposal at Baltimore, MD; Sold in 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 3-drum express boilers, 2,750ihp vertical triple expansion 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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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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