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HMS Dittany

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History
United Kingdom
NameDittany
NamesakeDittany
BuilderCollingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood
Launched31 October 1942
FateTransferred to the United States Navy
United States
NameBeacon
NamesakeVerb:Beacon
Acquired7 March 1943
FateTransferred to the Royal Navy
United Kingdom
NameDittany
Commissioned31 May 1943
IdentificationPennant number: K 279
FateSold commercial 1950, scrapped 1 April 1966
General characteristics
Class and typeFlower-class corvette
Displacement1,375 long tons (1,397 t)
Length205 ft (62 m)
Beam33 ft (10 m)
Draft14 ft 7 in (4.45 m)
Speed16.5 kn (19.0 mph; 30.6 km/h)
Complement90
Armament

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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