USS Haste

USS Haste (PG-92), was one of a group of Canadian corvettes turned over to the United States Navy and manned by the Coast Guard. She was laid down as CN-310 by Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City, Canada, and launched on 22 August 1942 as HMS Mandrake. She was taken over by the US Navy, renamed Haste and commissioned on 6 April 1943.

History
United Kingdom
Name	Mandrake
Builder	Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City
Laid down	11 December 1941 as Canadian corvette hull CN-310
Launched	22 August 1942
Identification	Pennant number: K 287
Fate	Transferred to the US Navy, 6 April 1943
United States
Name	Haste
Acquired	6 April 1943
Commissioned	6 April 1943
Decommissioned	3 October 1945
Fate	Sold in 1949 to Carlo Cameli of Genoa, Italy as a ferry/transport and renamed Porto Azzuro; Sold in 1950 to S. A. Nav. Toscana of Leghorn, Italy; Scrapped in 1971.
General characteristics
Class and type	Action class
Type	Patrol boat
Displacement	1,375 long tons (1,397 t)
Length	205 ft (62 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draft	14 ft 7 in (4.45 m)
Propulsion	two 3-drum express boilers, one 2,750iph Canadian Vickers vertical triple expansion engine, one shaft.
Speed	16.5 kn (19.0 mph; 30.6 km/h)
Complement	90
Armament	2 × 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts 2 × 20 mm gun mounts 1 × Hedgehog 4 × depth charge guns 2 × depth charge chutes

Haste took up regular escort duties following shakedown, making ten voyages to Newfoundland or the Caribbean before November 1944. Small patrol ships such as Haste did much to lessen the effect of U-boat patrols on allied commerce during this critical period of the war. During the period November 1944—May 1945 the corvette served on patrol duty for 10-day periods out of New York. After making two more escort voyages to Newfoundland and return, the ship departed New York 2 July for Charleston, South Carolina, where she arrived 3 days later. Haste decommissioned 3 October 1945 and was returned to the Maritime Commission.