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Ready (PG 67)
ex-HMS Calendula (K 28)



Ready call sign:
November - Zulu - Bravo - Papa

Ready served the Navies of Great Britain and the United States.


British Flower Class Corvette/Temptress Class Patrol Gunboat; Laid down as the "Flower Class" corvette HMS Calendula (K 28) by Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, Northern Ireland; Launched in February 1940; Transferred to the U.S. Navy and commissioned USS Ready (PG-67), 12 March 1942 at Tilburg, England; Decommissioned 20 August 1945 at Harwich, England; Returned to the Royal Navy 23 August 1945; Struck from the Naval Register 17 September 1945; Sold 22 July 1946 and renamed Viklkla Cisernos; Renamed Villa Bens in 1949; Sold to the Spanish Government in 1963. 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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