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Intensity (PG 93)
ex-HMS Milfoil (K 288)


Intensity call sign:
November - Xray - Papa - Mike

British Flower Class Corvette/Action Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down as CN-311 by the Morton Engineering and Dry Dock Co., Quebec, Canada; Renamed HMS Milfoil (K 288); Launched 22 August 1942; Acquired by the U. S. Navy at Quebec and Commissioned USS Intensity (PG-93), 31 March 1943; Decommissioned, 3 October 1945 at Charleston, SC; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Turned over to the Maritime Commission for disposal; Final disposition, sold to Balleneros Ltd., Panama; converted to a whale catcher, renamed Olympic Promoter, resold to a Japanese company in 1965 and renamed Otori Maru #5. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 900 t; Length 205'; Beam 33'; Draft 14' 7"; Speed 16k; Complement 90; Armament two 3" gun mounts.


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Intensity 147k - -
Intensity 91k - -
Intensity 135k Underway in the Atlantic, c. mid-1943.
Donation of James Jasper, 2000.
Official U.S. Coast Guard Photograph from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.
USCG Photo NH 97406.
Naval Historical Center

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