U S NAVY 4th FLEET AT RECIFE - SHIP INDEX PC PCE PG PY PYC
38)PG 71 PATROL GUNBOAT
Photo. www.navsource.org By Tommy Trampp
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 Hwa in 1947
Fate unknown.
Specifications:
Displacement 1,118 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 guns, two dct and four dcp.
Propulsion two 225psi Scotch boilers, one 2,750 SHP Northeastern Marine Engine Co. verticle triple expansion engine, one shaft.
After serving in the Caribbean under the Commandant, Caribbean Sea Frontier, Tenacity was transferred early in September to Vice Admiral Ingram's South Atlantic Force, later redesignated the 4th Fleet. She arrived at Trinidad, British West Indies, on 7 September and, for the next 17 months, plied the waters along the coast of Brazil escorting convoys to various Brazilian ports, notably Recife and Bahia. Late in January 1944, the gunboat was detached from the 4th Fleet.
