HMS Smilax
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HMS Smilax was originally launched as Tact (PG-98), an Action-class gunboat built for the United States Navy by Collingwood Shipyards, Ltd., Collingwood, Ontario, Canada
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United States | |
Name | Tact |
Builder | Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood |
Laid down | in 1942 as Tact (PG 98) |
Launched | 19 November 1942 |
Fate | Transferred to the Royal Navy 21 June 1943 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Smilax |
Commissioned | 15 July 1942 |
Decommissioned | 9 October 1945 |
Stricken | 24 October 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K280 |
Fate | US Navy custody, 18 October 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Action-class patrol boat |
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) |
Propulsion | two 3-drum express boilers, 2,750ihp vertical triple expansion Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. engine, one shaft. |
Speed | 16.5 kn (19.0 mph; 30.6 km/h) |
Complement | 90 |
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