"USS Beacon (PG-88)" redirects here. For other ships, see USS Beacon.
History
United Kingdom
Name
Dittany
Namesake
Dittany
Builder
Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood
Launched
31 October 1942
Fate
Transferred to the United States Navy
United States
Name
Beacon
Namesake
Verb:Beacon
Acquired
7 March 1943
Fate
Transferred to the Royal Navy
United Kingdom
Name
Dittany
Commissioned
31 May 1943
Identification
Pennant number: K 279
Fate
Sold commercial 1950, scrapped 1 April 1966
General characteristics
Class and type
Flower-class corvette
Displacement
1,375 long tons (1,397 t)
Length
205 ft (62 m)
Beam
33 ft (10 m)
Draft
14 ft 7 in (4.45 m)
Speed
16.5 kn (19.0 mph; 30.6 km/h)
Complement
90
Armament
2 × 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts
2 × 20 mm gun mounts
2 × depth charge tracks
HMS Dittany was a Flower-class corvette of the British Royal Navy during the Second World War.
On 14 August 1942, the name Beacon was approved for PG 88, a modified Flower-class corvette being built at Collingwood, Ontario, Canada. Records indicate that Beacon was to have been accepted under "reverse lend lease", commissioned in Canada, and then taken to the Boston Navy Yard for outfitting. Assigned, first, to the United Kingdom on 30 January 1943, but reassigned to the US Navy on 7 March 1943, she was reassigned again to the Royal Navy on 31 May 1943, and commissioned as HMS Dittany, her original British name. She served under that name for the rest of the war.
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