HMS Honesty

History
United States
Name	Caprice
Builder	Kingston Shipbuilding Co., Kingston
Laid down	as CN-308
Launched	28 September 1942
Fate	Transferred to the Royal Navy, 28 May 1943
United Kingdom
Name	Honesty
Identification	Pennant number: K 285
Fate	Returned to US custody, 5 January 1946 Sold 10 December 1946; Scrapped at Hamburg, Germany in 1961
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	4-cylinder triple expansion, 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

The second USS Caprice (PG-90), formerly CN-308, was launched 28 September 1942, by Kingston Shipbuilding Co., Kingston, Ontario, Canada, for the United States Navy. Upon completion, Caprice was transferred to the Royal Navy on 28 May 1943, and commissioned as HMS Honesty.

On 5 January 1946, Honesty was returned to the United States Navy and reverted to the name Caprice. Never commissioned in the United States Navy, Caprice was sold on 10 December 1946.

 This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

• USS Caprice (PG-90
• NavSource Online: Gunboat Photo Archive - HMS Honesty (K 285) ex-Caprice (PG 90) ex-CN-308