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USS Temptress (PG 62)



Temptress call sign:
Nan - Baker - Charlie - Fox

ex-HMS Veronica (K 37)

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

British Flower Class Corvette/Temptress Class Patrol Gunboat:
  • Built by Smith's Dock Co., Ltd., South Bank-on-Tees, England (YN 1085)
  • Ordered for the French Navy, 31 August 1939
  • Taken over by Great Britain with the fall of France
  • Laid down, 09 July 1940
  • Launched, 17 October 1940
  • Placed in service by the Royal Navy as HMS Veronica (K 37), 18 February 1941
  • Decommissioned and transferred to the US Navy, 16 February 1942
  • Commissioned USS Temptress (PG-62) in England, 21 March 1942
  • Decommissioned at Chatham, England, 20 August 1945
  • Returned to the Royal Navy and recommissioned HMS Veronica (K 37), 26 August 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 17 September 1945
  • Decommissioned, 19 September 1945
  • Sold to Wheelock, Marden & Co., Ltd., London,and converted to cargo vessel, 1946
  • Entered mercantile service as Verolock (B181525), November 1946
  • Wrecked in tow at L'Aber Wrac'h, France, 12 January 1947
  • Salvaged and scrapped at Blyth, England, 1951

    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,375 tons
    Length 205' 2"
    Beam 33'
    Draft 14' 7"
    Speed 16.5 knots
    Complement 87
    Armament One 4"/50 gun mount, one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm gun mounts and two depth charge tracks
    PropulsionSmith's Dock Co. vertical triple expansion engine
    two 225psi Scotch boilers
    one shaft, 2750ihp
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Flower Class Corvette
    Flower Class Corvette
    120906601    		 168k "Escort Vessel (Corvette) - (Flower Class) - With Extended Forecastle, Increased Sheer, & Fuller Lines Fwd." U.S. Navy preliminary design plan, copied from Smith Dock Co., Ltd., Drawing No. 232. This plan, dated April 1941, is for a modification of the British "Flower" class corvette. Scale of the original drawing is not given, but appears to be 1/16" = 1'. The original plan is in the 1939-1944 "Spring Styles Book" held by the Naval Historical Center.
    U.S. Navy photo S-511-30    		 Naval Historical Center
    USS Temptress (PG 62)
    Temptress
    120906202    		 228k Underway, probably in New York harbor area, 29 October 1943. Temptress escorted Convoy GN-91 from Guantanamo Bay to New York, 21-28 October 1943.
    U.S. Navy photo from collection of Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum    		 Darryl Baker
    Temptress
    120906201    		 162k Underway, probably off Norfolk, VA, 09 October 1944. -
    Commanding Officers
    01LCDR William Henderson Kirvan, USN21 March 1942 - ???
    Courtesy of Dave Wright
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