HMS Milfoil

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USS Intensity (PG-93).jpg
HMS Milfoil after her transfer to the US Navy
History
Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameMilfoil
Namesake Achillea millefolium
Laid downNovember 1941
Launched5 August 1942
FateTransferred to the United States Navy
US flag 48 stars.svgUnited States
NameIntensity
Commissioned31 March 1943
Decommissioned3 October 1945
FateSold to Balleneros Ltd. of Panama
Flag of Panama.svgPanama
NameOlympic Promoter
Acquired1950
FateTransferred to a Japanese Company
Flag of Japan.svgJapan
NameOtori Maru №5
Acquired1965
FateBroken up 1 April 1966
General characteristics
Class and type Flower-class corvette
Displacement1,375 tons
Length205 ft (62 m)
Beam33 ft (10 m)
Draught14 ft 7 in (4.45 m)
PropulsionTwo 3-drum express boilers driving a Canadian Vickers VTE engine
Speed16.5 knots
Complement90
Armament1 × 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts

HMS Milfoil was a modified Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy (as USS Intensity (PG-93)) before being transferred to Panama where she served as a whaling ship.

During most of World War II, she operated from New York on escort duty to the Caribbean Sea. She completed 15 escort runs in this role. As USS Intensity, she was designated an Action-class patrol gunboat and manned by the United States Coast Guard. She was put on patrol in New York for a month in 1944 but was later returned to escort duty in the Caribbean.

After the threat from German attack disappeared in May 1945, USS Intensity sailed to Charleston, South Carolina, arriving on 29 June 1945. She was decommissioned later that year in Charleston and put into the trust of the United States Maritime Commission.

In 1950, she was sold to a Panamanian company, Balleneros Ltd., where she was used as a whaling ship called Olympic Promoter. She was then sold to a Japanese company and renamed Otori Maru № 5.

The ship was scrapped at Shodoshima on 1 April 1966. [1]

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References

  1. "Milfoil (5267017)" . Miramar Ship Index . Retrieved 14 February 2021.