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Action (PG 86)
ex-HMS Comfrey (K 277)
ex-CN-304



Action call sign:
November - Zulu - Bravo - Charlie

British Flower Class Corvette/Action Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down 6 January 1942 as CN-304 by the Collingwood Shipyard, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada; Renamed HMS Comfrey (K 277); Launched 28 July 1942; Named Action 13 August 1942; Acquired by the U.S. Navy 21 November 1942; Commissioned USS Action (PG-86), 22 November 1942; Decommissioned 6 September 1945 at Charleston, SC; Struck from the Navy list 17 September 1945; Transferred to the Maritime Commission in October 1946; Sold for conversion to a whale-catcher in 1949; Sold in 1952 to J. Presthus, Bergen, Norway; Converted to a cargo vessel and renamed Arne Presthus. 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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