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USS Tenacity (PG 71)

Tenacity call sign:
Nan - How - Able - Dog

ex-HMS Candytuft (K 09)

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

British Flower Class Corvette/Temptress Class Patrol Gunboat:

Laid down in 1940 as the "Flower Class" corvette HMS Candytuft (K-09) by Grangemouth Dry Dock Co., Grangemouth, Scotland

Launched 8 July 1940

Acquired by the U. S. Navy 4 March 1942 at New York, NY

Commissioned USS Tenacity (PG-71), 11 June 1942

Decommissioned 22 August 1945 at Harwich, England

Returned to the Royal Navy 26 August 1945

Struck from the Navy Register 17 September 1945

Sold into mercantile service 9 July 1946

Renamed SS Maw Hwa in 1947

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 1,375 t.

Length 205' 2"

Beam 33'

Draft 14' 7"

Speed 16.5 kts.

Complement 87

Armament: One 4"/50 gun mount, one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm gun mounts and two depth charge tracks

Propulsion: Two 225psi Scotch boilers, one 2,750ihp Northeastern Marine Engine Co. vertical triple expansion engine, one shaft.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
HMS Candytuft (K 09)
	96k		Robert Hurst
Flower Class Corvette
	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 Tenacity (PG 71)
	123k		Tommy Trampp
	456k	26 June 1942 New York Navy Yard USS Lansdowne (DD 486) is in the background U.S. Navy photo F644C2487	Ed Zajkowski
	436k	26 June 1942 New York Navy Yard U.S. Navy photos F644C2488 and F644C2489
	323k
	620k	26 June 1942 New York Navy Yard USS Lansdowne (DD 486) is in the background U.S. Navy photos F644C2490 and F644C2491
	562k
	48k	26 June 1942 New York Navy Yard U.S. Navy photos
	46k	26 June 1942 New York Navy Yard U.S. Navy photos
	95k	26 June 1942 New York Navy Yard She is wearing Measure 12 dappled camouflage U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Floating Drydock from "Naval Camouflage 1914-1945: A Complete Visual Reference", by David Williams	Robert Hurst
	115k	c. March 1943 Underway as part of a Casablanca bound convoy Photo by J. R. Eyerman from the Life magazine archives shared by Peter DeForest	Mike Green
	108k		Mike Green