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Beacon (PG 88)
ex-HMS Dittany (K 279)

Beacon served the Navies of Great Britain and the United States.
British Flower Class Corvette/Action Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down as HMS Dittany (K 279) by the Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood, Ontario, Canada; Launched 31 October 1942; Commissioned Beacon (PG 88); Transferred to the Royal Navy in March 1943; Returned to U.S. Navy custody 20 June 1946. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 900 t; Length 190'; Beam 33'; Draft 14' 7"; Speed 16.5k; Complement 90; Armament two 3"/50 gun mounts, four 20mm, three .30 caliber Browning machine guns, two depth charge tracks--20 depth charges per rack, four depth charge "K-gun" projectors, and one hedgehog added in 1943.


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