HMS Veronica (K37)
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Veronica |
| Namesake | Veronica (plant) |
| Builder | Smiths Dock, Middlesbrough |
| Laid down | 9 July 1940 |
| Launched | 17 October 1940 |
| Commissioned | 18 February 1941 |
| Decommissioned | 16 February 1942 |
| Identification | Pennant number: K37 |
| Fate | Transferred to United States Navy |
| United States | |
| Name | USS Temptress |
| Commissioned | 21 March 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 20 August 1945 |
| Identification | Hull number: PG-62 |
| Fate | Returned to Royal Navy |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Veronica |
| Commissioned | 26 August 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 19 September 1945 |
| Fate | Sold into civilian service 1946, sunk 1947, raised and scrapped 1951 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Flower-class corvette |
| Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 short tons) |
| Length | 205 ft (62.48 m)o/a |
| Beam | 33 ft 2 in (10.11 m) |
| Draught | 13 ft 7 in (4.14 m) |
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| Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h) |
| Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
| Complement | 85 |
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HMS Veronica was a Flower-class corvette, built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War, and was in service in the Battle of the Atlantic. In 1942 she was transferred to the United States Navy as part of the reverse Lend Lease arrangement and renamed USS Temptress, the name ship of the Temptress-class gunboats. With the end of hostilities she was returned to the Royal Navy and sold into mercantile service.