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HMS Smilax (K 280)
ex-Tact (PG 98)

Tact call sign:
November - Golf - Foxtrot - Golf
British Flower Class Corvette/Temptress Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down in 1942 as Tact (PG 98) for the U.S. Navy at Collingwood Shipyards, Ltd., Collingwood, Ontario, Canada; Launched, 19 November 1942; Aquired by the Royal Navy under the Lend-Lease Program, 21 June 1943; Commissioned HMS Smilax (K 280); Returned to U.S. Navy custody, 18 October 1946; Turned over to the Maritime Commission for disposal; Sold to Argentina. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 925 t; Length 205' 2"; Beam 33'; Draft 14' 7"; Speed 16.5 kts; Complement 87; Armament one 4" gun mount, one 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm guns, two dct, four dcp, one hedgehog dcp.
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