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Alacrity (PG 87)
ex-HMS Cornel (K 278)

Alacrity call sign:
November - Delta - Romeo - Oscar
British Flower Class Corvette/Action Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down as HMS Cornel (K 278) by the Collingwood Shipyard, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada; Acquired by the U.S. Navy 6 January 1942; Launched 4 September 1942; Commissioned USS Alacrity (PG 87), 10 December 1942; Decommissioned 4 October 1945 at Charleston, SC; Struck from the Navy list 24 October 1945; Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 22 September 1947; Sold to Societe Anonima Navigazione Toscana, Livorno, Italy (Cameli group) and renamed Rio Marina; Renamed Portoferraio (the chief town of Elba Island).
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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