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| Name: | HMS Arabis |
| Namesake: | Arabis |
| Ordered: | 19 September 1939 |
| Builder: | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
| Laid down: | 30 October 1939 |
| Launched: | 14 February 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 5 April 1940 |
| Out of service: | 30 April 1942 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: K73 |
| Career | |
| Name: | USS Saucy |
| Commissioned: | 30 April 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 20 August 1945 |
| Out of service: | 26 August 1945 |
| Struck: | 19 September 1945 |
| Identification: | Hull number: PG-65 |
| Career | |
| Name: | HMS Snapdragon |
| Namesake: | Snapdragon |
| Identification: | Pennant number: K73 |
| Fate: | Sold into merchant service in 1946.[Note 1] Renamed SS Katina in 1947. Renamed SS Tewfik in 1950 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Flower-class corvette |
| Displacement: | 940 tons |
| Length: | 205 ft (62 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught: | 11.5 ft (3.5 m) |
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| Speed: | 16 kn (30 km/h) at 2,750 hp |
| Range: | 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 87 men |
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For the New Zealand corvette of the same name see HMNZS Arabis
HMS Arabis was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. Originally ordered for the French Navy in the early days of the war, the ship was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Arabis. She was transferred to the United States Navy in 1942, serving as USS Saucy. Returned to the United Kingdom in 1945, she was recommissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Snapdragon.
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The ship escorted North Atlantic convoys from 1940 until May 1942.
Whilst at Belfast in April 1942 she was transferred to the United States Navy under Reverse Lend Lease, one of ten Flower-class corvettes to be so transferred during 1942. After escorting a convoy to Halifax, Nova Scotia she sailed to Boston for refitting. Following this she escorted ships between Trinidad and Barbados. In September was transferred to the Trinidad-Guantanamo Bay convoy route and in January 1943 was changed again, to the Trinidad-Recife, route. She returned to North Atlantic convoy duties in March 1944 and was decommissioned from the United States Navy at Chatham, England in August 1945.
Recommissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Snapdragon, she was sold in 1946.[Note 1]
She worked as the merchant vessel SS Katina and in 1950 was renamed SS Tewfik.
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