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Spry (PG 64)
ex-HMS Hibiscus (K 24)



Spry call sign:
November - Bravo - Golf - Zulu


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


British Flower Class Corvette/Temptress Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down by Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, Northern Ireland for the French Navy but taken over with the fall of France; Named HMS Hibiscus (K 24) ; Launched, 6 April 1940; Transferred to the U.S. Navy at Leith, Scotland 20 May 1942 and commissioned the same day as USS Spry (PG-64); Decommissioned, 20 August 1945 at Chatham, England; Returned to the Royal Navy, 26 August 1945; Struck from the Naval Register 17 September 1945; Sold into mercantile service in 1947 by the British as Madonna; Sold for scrapping in 1955 at Hong Kong.

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, four dcp.


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Spry 81k Seen here as HMS Hibiscus (K 24)
Royal Navy photo
Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II
Altair 93k Altair (AD-11) in what appears to be Measure 12 (modified) camouflage, moored at Port of Spain, Trinidad, 1 October 1942, tending Spry (PG-64), Bainbridge (DD-246), and Goff (DD-247), and the Dutch minelayer/patrol vessel Jan Van Brakel.
U.S. National Archives photo # 80-G-31669
Joe Radigan, MACM, USN, Ret.

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