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Originally Posted by shadow_wxh
This ship here
DE_BH1 = Big Hunter or BigHumter01=Coastal Corvette
Huge number of these were made and lend-lease to other countries,435 served in US,8 served in Brasil, 81 served under Free French and France,136 Served in Russian and they do call them "Big Hunter" for some unknown reason obviously they are not very big.
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142 subchasers of the SC-497 type under Lend-Lease received the Soviet VMF. 50 - by the French, 8 - by the Brazilians. Mexico and Norway received three each. In Norway, all three SCs survived: the hunter "Hitra" (ex-SC-718) is now on display at the Royal Naval Museum, and the remains of the hunters "Hessa" (ex-SC-683) and "Vigra" (ex-SC-1061) can be found off the coast of Sweden.
Sea Hunter "Hitra" in June 2003