USS Surprise (PG-63)
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Heliotrope |
Namesake | Heliotrope (flower) |
Builder | John Crown & Sons Ltd, Sunderland |
Laid down | 23 October 1939 |
Launched | 5 June 1940 |
Commissioned | 12 September 1940 |
Decommissioned | 24 March 1942 |
Identification | Pennant number: K03 |
Fate | Transferred to United States Navy |
United States | |
Name | Surprise |
Acquired | 24 March 1942 |
Commissioned | 24 March 1942 |
Decommissioned | 20 August 1945 |
Stricken | 17 September 1945 |
Identification | Hull number: PG-63 |
Fate | Returned to Royal Navy 26 August 1945 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Heliotrope |
Acquired | 26 August 1945 |
Fate | Sold into civilian service, 1947 |
People's Republic of China | |
Name | Linyi |
Namesake | Linyi |
Acquired | 1949 |
Commissioned | 1949 |
Decommissioned | 1972 |
Fate | Scrapped after retirement |
General characteristics | |
Type | Patrol gunboat |
Displacement |
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Length | 205 ft 2 in (62.53 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 7 in (4.45 m) |
Installed power | 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW)[2] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 16.5 kn (19.0 mph; 30.6 km/h) |
Complement | 87 officers and enlisted men |
Armament |
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USS Surprise (PG-63), the fourth American naval ship of the name, was a Temptress-class patrol gunboat during World War II. She was built as the British Flower-class corvette HMS Heliotrope, and was in service with the Royal Navy during the first years of the Battle of the Atlantic. She was loaned to and operated by the United States Navy from 1942 to 1945. After World War II, she was sold as a merchant vessel and ended her life in the Chinese navy as Lin I.