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Temptress (PG 62)
ex-HMS Veronica (K-37)

Temptress call sign:
November - Bravo - Charlie - Foxtrot
Temptress served the Navies of Great Britain and the United States.
British Flower Class Corvette/Temptress Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down in 1940 by Smith's Dock Co., Ltd., Middlesboro, England for the French Navy but taken over with the fall of France; Renamed HMS Veronica (K-37); Launched 17 October 1940; Placed in service by the Royal Navy; Transferred to the U.S. Navy 16 February 1942 and renamed USS Temptress (PG-62); Commissioned 21 March 1942 in England; Decommissioned 20 August 1945 at Chatham, England; Returned to the Royal Navy 26 August 1945; Struck from the Naval Register 19 September 1945; Sold in 1946, entered mercantile service as Verolock; Sunk in 1947; Salvaged and scrapped at Blyth, England in 1957.
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"gun mount, two 20mm, guns two dct.
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