Flower class corvette
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The Flower-class corvette (also referred to as the Gladiolus class) was a class
of 267 corvette
s used during World War II
, specifically with the Allied
navies as anti-submarine
convoy
escorts during the Battle of the Atlantic. Several vessels saw service with the United States Navy
where they were known as Action-class patrol gunboat
s.
The majority served during World War II with the Royal Navy
(RN) and Royal Canadian Navy
(RCN), with some being built for, or transferred to, other Allied navies such as the United States Navy (USN) (where some were manned by the U.S. Coast Guard
), the Free French Naval Forces
, the Royal Netherlands Navy
, the Royal Norwegian Navy
, the Royal Indian Navy
, the Royal Hellenic Navy
, the Royal New Zealand Navy
and, immediately post-war, the South African Navy
. Several ships built largely in Canada were transferred between the USN and RN under the lend-lease program, seeing service in both navies.
After World War II
many surplus Flower-class vessels saw use in non-Allied navies the world over, as well as civilian use. is the only member of the class to be preserved as a museum ship
.
and the sloop-of-war
. In the 1830s the term was adopted by the RN for sailing warships of roughly similar size, primarily operating in the shipping protection role. With the arrival of steam power, paddle- and later screw-driven corvettes were built for the same purpose, growing in power, size, and armament over the decades. In 1877, the RN abolished the "corvette" as a traditional category; corvettes and frigates were then combined into a new category, "cruiser
".
The months leading up to World War II saw the RN return to the concept of a small escort warship being used in the shipping protection role. The Flower class was based on a whale-catcher design and apparently Winston Churchill
labelled them "corvettes", thus restoring the title for the RN . As such, there is no linear link between the Flower class and the cruising vessels of pre-1877.
There are two distinct groups of vessels in this class: the original Flower class which was a group of 225 vessels ordered during the 1939 and 1940 building programs; and the modified Flower class which followed with a further 69 vessels ordered from 1940 onward. The modified "Flowers" were slightly larger and somewhat better armed.
In addition, those Flower-class vessels which saw service with the USN are also known as Action-class gunboats and carried the hull classification symbol
PG (Patrol Gunboat), regardless of whether they were original or modified designs.
The generic term "Flower" is derived from the RN's use of flower
names for the class.
Southern Pride
, constructed by the Smiths Dock Company
of Middlesbrough
. The class was intended to be a "stop-gap" measure for the Allied navies in their battle against Kriegsmarine
U-boat
s. They were intended as small convoy escort ships that could be produced quickly and cheaply in large numbers. Despite naval planners intentions that they be deployed for coastal convoys, their long range meant that they became the mainstay of Mid-Ocean Escort Force
convoy protection during the first half of the war.
The Flower class became an essential resource for North Atlantic convoy protection until larger vessels such as destroyer
s and frigate
s could be produced in sufficient quantities. The simple design of the Flower class using parts and techniques (scantling
s) common to merchant shipping meant they could be constructed in small commercial shipyards all over the United Kingdom
and eastern Canada
, where larger (or more sophisticated) warships could not be built. Additionally, the use of commercial machinery meant the largely Royal Naval Reserve
and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
crews to man them would be familiar with their operation.
Flower-class vessels were slow for a warship with maximum speed of 16 kn (31.4 km/h). They were also very lightly armed as they were intended solely for anti-submarine warfare
; many of the RCN's original Flower-class ships were initially fitted with minesweeping
equipment, while virtually all of the modified Flowers were fitted with a limited anti-aircraft
capability.
The original Flowers had the standard RN layout, consisting of a raised forecastle
, a well deck
, then the bridge or wheelhouse, and a continuous deck running aft. The crew quarters were in the foc'sle while the galley was at the rear making for poor messing arrangements.
The modified Flowers saw the forecastle extended aft past the bridge to the aft end of the funnel
, a variation known as the "long forecastle" design. Apart from providing a very useful space where the whole crew could gather out of the weather, the added weight improved the ships' stability and speed and was retrospectively applied to a number of the original Flower-class vessels during the mid and latter years of the war.
The original Flowers had a mast
located immediately forward the bridge, a notable exception to naval practice at that time. The modified Flowers saw the mast returned to the normal position immediately aft of the bridge; however, this does not seem to have been done in all of the modified builds or conversions of the original vessels.
A cruiser
stern finished the appearance for all vessels in the class.
, the British Admiralty
ordered another 20 on 19 September (all from Harland & Wolff
) under the 1939 War Programme. This was followed by an order for a further ten Flower-class corvettes from other British shipbuilders two days later. Another 18 were ordered on 12 December and an additional two on 15 December, again from British shipbuilders. The RN ordered the last ten vessels (under the 1939 War Programme) from Canadian shipbuilders in January 1940.
Thus, by the end of January 1940, a total of 116 ships were building or on order to this initial design. The 10 vessels ordered from Canadian shipbuilders were transferred to the RCN upon completion. Another four vessels were ordered at Smiths Dock Company
for the French Navy
, the first ship being completed for the Free French Naval Forces
in mid-1940 and the other three being taken over by the RN. Another 31 Flowers were ordered by the RN under the 1940 War Programme, but six of these (ordered from Harland & Wolff) were cancelled on 23 January 1941.
The RN ordered 27 modified Flower-class corvettes under the 1941 and 1942 War Programmes. British shipbuilders were contracted to build seven of these vessels under the 1941 Programme and 5 vessels under the 1942 Programme; however, two vessels (one from each year's Programme) were later cancelled. Additionally, the RN ordered 15 modified Flowers from Canadian shipyards under the 1941 programme; eight of these were transferred to the USN under the Lend-Lease Programme
.
The RCN ordered 70 original and 34 modified Flower class from Canadian shipbuilders. The Canadian shipbuilders also built seven original Flowers ordered by the USN; however, these vessels were transferred to the RN under the Lend-Lease Programme upon completion as wartime shipbuilding production in the United States had reached the level where the USN could dispense with vessels it had ordered in Canada. The RCN vessels had several design variations from their RN counterparts: the "bandstand," where the aft pom-pom
gun was mounted, was moved to the rear of the superstructure; the galley was also moved forward, immediately abaft the engine room.
. The two At. & Ch. de France ships are listed as "cancelled" but the four Penhoët ships were under construction at the time of the Fall of France
and were seized by Nazi Germany
.
Three were completed for Kriegsmarine
service and commissioned in 1943–44 under the names PA-1, PA-2 and PA-3. Their logs have all been lost, but it is thought their war careers consisted of a mixture of coastal patrol and escort with at least one specially adapted as a sea-mobile heavy anti-aircraft platform. RAF aircraft bombed and sank PA-1, PA-2 and PA-3 at Le Havre
or in the English Channel shortly after the Normandy landings in June 1944.
The fourth Penhoët ship, which the Kriegsmarine intended to be PA-4, remained uncompleted when Saint-Nazaire was liberated in 1944. She was launched in September 1944 as FFL La Telindiére and sunk as a blockship She was raised in April 1945 and scrapped in 1946.
The original Flower class were fitted with a 4 inch (102 mm) gun on the bow, depth charge racks carrying 40 charges on the stern, a minesweeping winch, and a 2-pounder (40 mm) pom-pom gun
on a "bandstand" over the engine room.
Due to initial shortages, a pair of Lewis gun
s was sometimes substituted for the pom-pom, which would have left the ship very vulnerable to aircraft attack in its envisaged role of coastal convoy escort and patrol in the North Sea
. The long-range endurance of the vessels, coupled with early war-time shortages of larger escort warships, saw Flowers assigned to trans-Atlantic convoy escort where Luftwaffe
fighter-bombers were rarely encountered. Vessels assigned to the Mediterranean Sea
usually had their anti-aircraft capability significantly upgraded.
Detection capability was provided by a fixed ASDIC
dome; this was later modified to be retractable. Subsequent inventions such as the High Frequency Radio Detection Finder (Huff-Duff) were later added, along with various radar
systems (such as the Type 271), which proved particularly effective in low-visibility conditions in the North Atlantic.
The Flower class had been designed for inshore patrol and harbour anti-submarine defence; therefore, many required minor modifications when the Allied navies began deploying these vessels as trans-Atlantic convoy escorts. These small warships could be supported by any small dockyard or naval station, so many ships came to have a variety of different weapons systems and design modifications depending upon when and where they were refitted; there is really no such thing as a 'standard Flower-class corvette'
Several of the major changes that vessels in the class underwent are indicated below, in a typical chronological order:
Note that any particular ship may have had any mix of these (including none), in any order, or other specialist one-off modifications. Ships allocated to other navies such as the RCN or USN usually had different armament (3 inch {76 mm}/50 cal) and deck layouts.
A major difference between the RN vessels and the RCN, USN, and other navies' vessels was the provision of upgraded ASDIC and radar. The RN was a world leader in developing these technologies, and thus RN Flowers were somewhat better equipped for remote detection of enemy submarines. A good example of this is the difficulty that RCN Flowers had in intercepting U-boats with their Canadian-designed SW1C metric radar while the RN vessels were equipped with the technologically advanced Type 271 centimetric sets. In addition, RCN vessels were incapable of operating gyrocompass
es, making ASDIC attacks more difficult.
Most Royal Navy Flower-class ships drew their officers and crew from the Royal Naval Reserve
and the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve
(RNVR). Many RN Flowers had captains drawn from the Merchant Navy
.
Service on Flowers in the North Atlantic was typically cold, wet, monotonous and uncomfortable. Every dip of the fo'c'sle
into an oncoming wave was followed by a cascade of water into the well deck amidships. Men at action stations were drenched with spray and water entered living spaces through hatches opened to access ammunition magazines. Interior decks were constantly wet and condensation dripped from the overheads. The head (or sanitary toilet) was drained by a straight pipe to the ocean; and a reverse flow of the icy North Atlantic would cleanse the backside of those using it during rough weather. By 1941, corvettes carried twice as many crewmen as anticipated in the original design. Men slept on lockers or tabletops or in any dark place that offered a little warmth. The warships were nicknamed "the pekingese
of the ocean". They had a reputation of having poor sea-handling characteristics, most often rolling
in heavy seas, with complete 80-degree rolls (40 degrees each side of the normal upright position) being fairly common; it was said they "would roll on wet grass". Many crewmen suffered severe motion sickness for a few weeks until they acclimatised to shipboard life. It should be noted however, the general design of the Flowers was extremely seaworthy (just poor sea-handling characteristics), as no Allied sailor was ever lost overboard from a Flower during World War II, outside of enemy action.
A typical action by a Flower during convoy escort duties should she encounter a surfaced U-boat was to run directly at the submarine to force it to dive (thus limiting the speed and manoeuvrability of the U-boat). The corvette would then keep the submarine down and pre-occupied with avoiding depth charge attacks long enough to allow the convoy to safely pass. The 16 knots (31.4 km/h) top speed of the Flower-class ships made effective pursuit of a surfaced U-boat (approximately 17 knots) impossible, though it was adequate to manoeuvre around submerged U-boats or convoys, both of which ran at a typical maximum of 8 knots, and sometimes much less in poor weather. The low speed also made it difficult for Flowers to catch up to the convoy again after action.
This technique was hampered when the Kriegsmarine began deploying its U-boats in "wolf-pack" attacks, which were intended to overwhelm the escort warships of a convoy and allow at least one of the submarines to attack the merchant vessels. Upgrades in sensors and armament for the Flowers, such as radar, HF/DF, depth-charge projectors, and ASDIC, meant these small warships were well equipped to detect and defend against such attacks, but the tactical advantage often lay with the attackers, who could operate a cat-and-mouse series of attacks intended to draw the defending Flower off-station.
Success for the Flowers, therefore, should be measured in terms of tonnage protected, rather than U-boats sunk. Typical reports of convoy actions by these craft include numerous instances of U-boat detection near a convoy, followed by brief engagements using guns or depth-charges and a rapid return to station as another U-boat took advantage of the initial skirmish to attack the unguarded convoy. Continuous actions of this kind against a numerically superior U-boat pack demanded considerable seamanship skills from all concerned, and were very wearing on the crews.
Thirty-six ships in the class were lost during World War II, many due to enemy action, some to collision with Allied warships and merchant ships. One, sunk in shallow water, was raised and repaired. Of the vessels lost to enemy action, 22 were torpedoed by U-boats, five were mined
, and four were sunk by enemy aircraft. The Flower-class corvettes are credited with participating in the sinking of 47 German and four Italian submarines.
Construction of the Flower class was superseded toward the end of the war as larger shipyards concentrated on River-class
frigate
s, and smaller yards on the improved Castle-class
corvette design.
The Flower class represented fully half of all Allied convoy escort vessels in the North Atlantic during World War II.
.
Italian submarine Nani was sunk by on 7 January 1941
U-70 was sunk by and on 7 March 1941
U-110 was captured on 9 May 1941 by the destroyers and and the corvette . U-110 was sunk the next day to preserve the secret.
was sunk by the destroyer and on 2 June 1941 U-556 was sunk by , , and on 17 June 1941
U-651 was sunk by the destroyers , , the corvettes and , and the minesweeper on 29 June 1941
U-401 was sunk by the destroyers and and the corvette on 3 August 1941
U-501 was sunk by and on 10 September 1941
Italian submarine Fisalia was sunk by on 28 September 1941
U-204 was sunk by and the sloop on 19 October 1941
U-433 was sunk by on 16 November 1941
U-131 was sunk by the destroyers , , , the corvette , the sloop , and a Martlet aircraft from on 17 December 1941
was sunk by the sloop and on 21 December 1941 U-356 was sunk by the destroyer , , and on 27 December 1942
was sunk by on 1 September 1942 U-94 was sunk by an American Catalina flying boat and on 28 August 1942 U-588 was sunk by and the destroyer on 31 July 1942 U-379 was sunk by on 8 August 1942Italian submarine Perla was captured by on 9 July 1942
U-660 was scuttled after being damaged by and on 12 November 1942
U-124 was sunk by and the sloop on 2 April 1942
was sunk by the sloop and on 6 February 1942 U-252 was sunk by the sloop and on 14 April 1942 U-432 was sunk by the corvette on 11 March 1943 U-444 was sunk by the destroyer and the corvette on 11 March 1943 U-609 was sunk by the corvette on 7 February 1943 U-536 was sunk by the frigate , and on 20 November 1943
was sunk by , the frigate , and a Canadian Sunderland seaplane
on 13 May 1943Italian submarine Tritone was sunk by and the destroyer on 19 January 1943
U-163 was sunk by on 13 March 1943
Italian submarine Avorio was sunk by on 8 February 1943
was sunk by and the destroyer on 4 March 1943 U-224 was sunk by on 13 January 1943 U-135 was sunk by the sloop , the corvettes and , and an American Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft on 15 July 1943 U-306 was sunk by the destroyer and on 31 October 1943 U-617 was destroyed while grounded by and the Australian minesweeper on 12 September 1943 U-436 was sunk by the frigate and on 26 May 1943 U-192 was sunk by on 6 May 1943 U-125 was sunk by the destroyer and on 6 May 1943 U-634 was sunk by the sloop and on 30 August 1943 U-638 was sunk by on 5 May 1943 U-631 was sunk by on 17 October 1943 U-282 was sunk by the destroyers and and the corvette on 29 October 1943 U-414 was sunk by . on 25 May 1943 U-523 was sunk by the destroyer and on 25 August 1943
was sunk by the frigate and on 8 January 1944 U-744 was sunk by the destroyers , , , the frigate , and the corvettes , , and on 6 March 1944
was sunk by on 15 August 1944 U-641 was sunk by on 19 January 1944 U-845 was sunk by the destroyers and , the corvette and the frigate on 10 March 1944 U-1199 was sunk by the destroyer and on 21 January 1945
32 vessels from the RN, RCN, and USN were transferred to Argentina
, Chile
, the Dominican Republic
, Greece
, India
, the Republic of Ireland
, South Africa
, and Venezuela
. These were typically operated according to their original design, as coastal patrol vessels, with many serving until the 1970s.
The Irish Navy
bought three Flowers in 1946 . The fledgling navy had intended to purchase an additional three corvettes, as well as a number of surplus minesweepers
, but severe budget restrictions cancelled these plans, leaving the original three to serve alone through the 1960s and 1970s, despite antiquated armament, poor accommodation, and maintenance problems. Entry into the EEC
in 1973 resulted in funding for replacement ships.
110 surplus Flowers were sold for commercial use. These saw various careers as mercantile freighters, smugglers, tugs, weather ships, and whalers. The remainder were scrapped. Of particular interest is the story of . She was declared surplus by the RCN and sold as a towboat specializing in deep-sea salvage. In November 1955, she rescued the freighter Makedonia in the North Pacific
, towing the vessel for over one month through severe weather, becoming one of the most famous salvage ships of all time.
The surplus RCN Flowers and were sold as mercantile freighters but were subsequently acquired in 1946 by the Mossad LeAliyah Bet, a branch of the Jewish Defense Association (Haganah
) in the British Mandate for Palestine. Mossad Le'aliyah Bet organized Jewish immigration from Europe into Palestine, in violation of unilateral British restrictions. The corvettes were intercepted in the Mediterranean Sea
during the summer of 1946 by the destroyer and interned
in Palestine. After Israel became independent in 1948, these commercial ships were commissioned into the Israeli Navy as the warships Hashomer and Hagana respectively.
Allied navies disposed of their Flowers so quickly following the war, the RN could not supply a single vessel to play Compass Rose in the 1953 film production of Nicholas Monsarrat
's novel The Cruel Sea. The Royal Hellenic Navy
supplied Kriezis (formerly ) for the role prior to her scrapping.
The only survivor of the entire class is , owned by the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust. She was laid up in reserve in March 1946 and converted in 1952 to a research vessel for Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries, a role she served in until the early 1980s when she was acquired by the trust. She has been restored to her wartime appearance and serves the summer months as a museum ship on loan to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
in Halifax
, Nova Scotia
, while wintering securely in the naval dockyard at CFB Halifax
under the care of Maritime Forces Atlantic
, Maritime Command
. Sackvilles presence in Halifax is considered very appropriate, given the port was an important North American convoy assembly port during the war. Sackville makes her first appearance each spring when she is towed by a naval tug from HMC Dockyard to a location off Point Pleasant Park
on the first Sunday in May to participate in the Commemoration of the Battle of the Atlantic ceremonies held at a memorial in the park overlooking the entrance to Halifax Harbour
. Sackville typically hosts several dozen RCN veterans on this day and has also participated in several burials at sea
for dispersing the ashes of RCN veterans of the Battle of the Atlantic at this location.
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of 267 corvette
Corvette
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s used during World War II
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, specifically with the Allied
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navies as anti-submarine
Anti-submarine warfare
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convoy
Convoy
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escorts during the Battle of the Atlantic. Several vessels saw service with the United States Navy
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where they were known as Action-class patrol gunboat
Gunboat
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s.
The majority served during World War II with the Royal Navy
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(RN) and Royal Canadian Navy
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(RCN), with some being built for, or transferred to, other Allied navies such as the United States Navy (USN) (where some were manned by the U.S. Coast Guard
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), the Free French Naval Forces
Free French Naval Forces
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, the Royal Netherlands Navy
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, the Royal Norwegian Navy
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, the Royal Indian Navy
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, the Royal Hellenic Navy
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, the Royal New Zealand Navy
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and, immediately post-war, the South African Navy
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. Several ships built largely in Canada were transferred between the USN and RN under the lend-lease program, seeing service in both navies.
After World War II
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many surplus Flower-class vessels saw use in non-Allied navies the world over, as well as civilian use. is the only member of the class to be preserved as a museum ship
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.
Class designation
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and the sloop-of-war
Sloop-of-war
In the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...
. In the 1830s the term was adopted by the RN for sailing warships of roughly similar size, primarily operating in the shipping protection role. With the arrival of steam power, paddle- and later screw-driven corvettes were built for the same purpose, growing in power, size, and armament over the decades. In 1877, the RN abolished the "corvette" as a traditional category; corvettes and frigates were then combined into a new category, "cruiser
Cruiser
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".
The months leading up to World War II saw the RN return to the concept of a small escort warship being used in the shipping protection role. The Flower class was based on a whale-catcher design and apparently Winston Churchill
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labelled them "corvettes", thus restoring the title for the RN . As such, there is no linear link between the Flower class and the cruising vessels of pre-1877.
There are two distinct groups of vessels in this class: the original Flower class which was a group of 225 vessels ordered during the 1939 and 1940 building programs; and the modified Flower class which followed with a further 69 vessels ordered from 1940 onward. The modified "Flowers" were slightly larger and somewhat better armed.
In addition, those Flower-class vessels which saw service with the USN are also known as Action-class gunboats and carried the hull classification symbol
Hull classification symbol
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PG (Patrol Gunboat), regardless of whether they were original or modified designs.
The generic term "Flower" is derived from the RN's use of flower
Flower
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names for the class.
Design
The design of the Flower class was inspired by whale catcherWhaler
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Southern Pride
Southern Pride
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, constructed by the Smiths Dock Company
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of Middlesbrough
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. The class was intended to be a "stop-gap" measure for the Allied navies in their battle against Kriegsmarine
Kriegsmarine
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U-boat
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s. They were intended as small convoy escort ships that could be produced quickly and cheaply in large numbers. Despite naval planners intentions that they be deployed for coastal convoys, their long range meant that they became the mainstay of Mid-Ocean Escort Force
Mid-Ocean Escort Force
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convoy protection during the first half of the war.
The Flower class became an essential resource for North Atlantic convoy protection until larger vessels such as destroyer
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s and frigate
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s could be produced in sufficient quantities. The simple design of the Flower class using parts and techniques (scantling
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s) common to merchant shipping meant they could be constructed in small commercial shipyards all over the United Kingdom
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and eastern Canada
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, where larger (or more sophisticated) warships could not be built. Additionally, the use of commercial machinery meant the largely Royal Naval Reserve
Royal Naval Reserve
The Royal Naval Reserve is the volunteer reserve force of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. The present Royal Naval Reserve was formed in 1958 by merging the original Royal Naval Reserve and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , a reserve of civilian volunteers founded in 1903...
and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Royal Naval Reserve
The Royal Naval Reserve is the volunteer reserve force of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. The present Royal Naval Reserve was formed in 1958 by merging the original Royal Naval Reserve and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , a reserve of civilian volunteers founded in 1903...
crews to man them would be familiar with their operation.
Flower-class vessels were slow for a warship with maximum speed of 16 kn (31.4 km/h). They were also very lightly armed as they were intended solely for anti-submarine warfare
Anti-submarine warfare
Anti-submarine warfare is a branch of naval warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, or other submarines to find, track and deter, damage or destroy enemy submarines....
; many of the RCN's original Flower-class ships were initially fitted with minesweeping
Demining
Demining or mine clearance is the process of removing either land mines, or naval mines, from an area, while minesweeping describes the act of detecting of mines. There are two distinct types of mine detection and removal: military and humanitarian.Minesweepers use many tools in order to accomplish...
equipment, while virtually all of the modified Flowers were fitted with a limited anti-aircraft
Anti-aircraft warfare
NATO defines air defence as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action." They include ground and air based weapon systems, associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements and passive measures. It may be to protect naval, ground and air forces...
capability.
The original Flowers had the standard RN layout, consisting of a raised forecastle
Forecastle
Forecastle refers to the upper deck of a sailing ship forward of the foremast, or the forward part of a ship with the sailors' living quarters...
, a well deck
Well deck
A well deck or well dock is a hangar-like deck located at the waterline in the stern of some amphibious warfare ships. By taking on water the ship can lower its stern, flooding the well deck and allowing boats and amphibious landing craft to dock within the ship. This facilitates moving cargo...
, then the bridge or wheelhouse, and a continuous deck running aft. The crew quarters were in the foc'sle while the galley was at the rear making for poor messing arrangements.
The modified Flowers saw the forecastle extended aft past the bridge to the aft end of the funnel
Funnel
A funnel is a pipe with a wide, often conical mouth and a narrow stem. It is used to channel liquid or fine-grained substances into containers with a small opening. Without a funnel, spillage would occur....
, a variation known as the "long forecastle" design. Apart from providing a very useful space where the whole crew could gather out of the weather, the added weight improved the ships' stability and speed and was retrospectively applied to a number of the original Flower-class vessels during the mid and latter years of the war.
The original Flowers had a mast
Mast (sailing)
The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall, vertical, or near vertical, spar, or arrangement of spars, which supports the sails. Large ships have several masts, with the size and configuration depending on the style of ship...
located immediately forward the bridge, a notable exception to naval practice at that time. The modified Flowers saw the mast returned to the normal position immediately aft of the bridge; however, this does not seem to have been done in all of the modified builds or conversions of the original vessels.
A cruiser
Cruiser
A cruiser is a type of warship. The term has been in use for several hundreds of years, and has had different meanings throughout this period...
stern finished the appearance for all vessels in the class.
Orders
The RN ordered 145 Flower-class corvettes in 1939, the first 26 on 25 July with a further batch of 30 on 31 August, all under the 1939 Pre-War Programme. Following the outbreak of World War IIWorld War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, the British Admiralty
Admiralty
The Admiralty was formerly the authority in the Kingdom of England, and later in the United Kingdom, responsible for the command of the Royal Navy...
ordered another 20 on 19 September (all from Harland & Wolff
Harland and Wolff
Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland....
) under the 1939 War Programme. This was followed by an order for a further ten Flower-class corvettes from other British shipbuilders two days later. Another 18 were ordered on 12 December and an additional two on 15 December, again from British shipbuilders. The RN ordered the last ten vessels (under the 1939 War Programme) from Canadian shipbuilders in January 1940.
Thus, by the end of January 1940, a total of 116 ships were building or on order to this initial design. The 10 vessels ordered from Canadian shipbuilders were transferred to the RCN upon completion. Another four vessels were ordered at Smiths Dock Company
Smiths Dock Company
Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company...
for the French Navy
French Navy
The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...
, the first ship being completed for the Free French Naval Forces
Free French Naval Forces
Les Forces Navales Françaises Libres were the naval arm of the Free French Forces during the Second World War. They were commanded by Admiral Emile Muselier.- History :...
in mid-1940 and the other three being taken over by the RN. Another 31 Flowers were ordered by the RN under the 1940 War Programme, but six of these (ordered from Harland & Wolff) were cancelled on 23 January 1941.
The RN ordered 27 modified Flower-class corvettes under the 1941 and 1942 War Programmes. British shipbuilders were contracted to build seven of these vessels under the 1941 Programme and 5 vessels under the 1942 Programme; however, two vessels (one from each year's Programme) were later cancelled. Additionally, the RN ordered 15 modified Flowers from Canadian shipyards under the 1941 programme; eight of these were transferred to the USN under the Lend-Lease Programme
Lend-Lease
Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in...
.
The RCN ordered 70 original and 34 modified Flower class from Canadian shipbuilders. The Canadian shipbuilders also built seven original Flowers ordered by the USN; however, these vessels were transferred to the RN under the Lend-Lease Programme upon completion as wartime shipbuilding production in the United States had reached the level where the USN could dispense with vessels it had ordered in Canada. The RCN vessels had several design variations from their RN counterparts: the "bandstand," where the aft pom-pom
Pom-pon
A pom-pon is a fluffy, decorative ball or tuft. Pom-pons may come in many colors, sizes, and varieties and are made from a wide array of materials, including wool, cotton, paper, plastic, and occasionally feathers....
gun was mounted, was moved to the rear of the superstructure; the galley was also moved forward, immediately abaft the engine room.
Kriegsmarine use
Shortly after the outbreak of war the French Navy ordered 18 Flower-class vessels; 12 from UK yards, two from Ateliers et Chantiers de France at Dunkirk and four from Chantiers de Penhoët at Saint-NazaireSaint-Nazaire
Saint-Nazaire , is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.The town has a major harbour, on the right bank of the Loire River estuary, near the Atlantic Ocean. The town is at the south of the second-largest swamp in France, called "la Brière"...
. The two At. & Ch. de France ships are listed as "cancelled" but the four Penhoët ships were under construction at the time of the Fall of France
Battle of France
In the Second World War, the Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War. The battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb , German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes, to cut off and...
and were seized by Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
.
Three were completed for Kriegsmarine
Kriegsmarine
The Kriegsmarine was the name of the German Navy during the Nazi regime . It superseded the Kaiserliche Marine of World War I and the post-war Reichsmarine. The Kriegsmarine was one of three official branches of the Wehrmacht, the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany.The Kriegsmarine grew rapidly...
service and commissioned in 1943–44 under the names PA-1, PA-2 and PA-3. Their logs have all been lost, but it is thought their war careers consisted of a mixture of coastal patrol and escort with at least one specially adapted as a sea-mobile heavy anti-aircraft platform. RAF aircraft bombed and sank PA-1, PA-2 and PA-3 at Le Havre
Le Havre
Le Havre is a city in the Seine-Maritime department of the Haute-Normandie region in France. It is situated in north-western France, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Seine on the English Channel. Le Havre is the most populous commune in the Haute-Normandie region, although the total...
or in the English Channel shortly after the Normandy landings in June 1944.
The fourth Penhoët ship, which the Kriegsmarine intended to be PA-4, remained uncompleted when Saint-Nazaire was liberated in 1944. She was launched in September 1944 as FFL La Telindiére and sunk as a blockship She was raised in April 1945 and scrapped in 1946.
| Ship | Ordered | Launched | Intended French name | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PA 1 | September 1939 | 16 October 1940 | Arquebuse | Confiscated in June 1940 and served in 15 Vorposten Flottille. Sunk by aerial bombing 15 June 1944 at Le Havre |
| PA 2 | September 1939 | 22 November 1940 | Hallebarde | Confiscated in June 1940 and served in 15 Vorposten Flottille. Sunk by aerial bombing 15 June 1944 at Le Havre |
| PA 3 | September 1939 | 29 November 1940 | Sabre | Confiscated in June 1940 and served in 15 Vorposten Flottille. Sunk by aerial bombing 15 June 1944 at Le Havre |
| PA 4 | September 1939 | 29 November 1940 | Poignard | Confiscated in June 1940. Launched 1 September 1944 as Telindiére. Sunk uncompleted as a block ship at Nantes Nantes Nantes is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the 6th largest in France, while its metropolitan area ranks 8th with over 800,000 inhabitants.... |
Armament
QF 2 pounder naval gun
The 2-pounder gun, officially designated the QF 2-pounder and universally known as the pom-pom, was a 1.575 inch British autocannon, used famously as an anti-aircraft gun by the Royal Navy. The name came from the sound that the original models make when firing...
on a "bandstand" over the engine room.
Due to initial shortages, a pair of Lewis gun
Lewis Gun
The Lewis Gun is a World War I–era light machine gun of American design that was perfected and widely used by the British Empire. It was first used in combat in World War I, and continued in service with a number of armed forces through to the end of the Korean War...
s was sometimes substituted for the pom-pom, which would have left the ship very vulnerable to aircraft attack in its envisaged role of coastal convoy escort and patrol in the North Sea
North Sea
In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively...
. The long-range endurance of the vessels, coupled with early war-time shortages of larger escort warships, saw Flowers assigned to trans-Atlantic convoy escort where Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956....
fighter-bombers were rarely encountered. Vessels assigned to the Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...
usually had their anti-aircraft capability significantly upgraded.
Detection capability was provided by a fixed ASDIC
Sonar
Sonar is a technique that uses sound propagation to navigate, communicate with or detect other vessels...
dome; this was later modified to be retractable. Subsequent inventions such as the High Frequency Radio Detection Finder (Huff-Duff) were later added, along with various radar
Radar
Radar is an object-detection system which uses radio waves to determine the range, altitude, direction, or speed of objects. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain. The radar dish or antenna transmits pulses of radio...
systems (such as the Type 271), which proved particularly effective in low-visibility conditions in the North Atlantic.
The Flower class had been designed for inshore patrol and harbour anti-submarine defence; therefore, many required minor modifications when the Allied navies began deploying these vessels as trans-Atlantic convoy escorts. These small warships could be supported by any small dockyard or naval station, so many ships came to have a variety of different weapons systems and design modifications depending upon when and where they were refitted; there is really no such thing as a 'standard Flower-class corvette'
Several of the major changes that vessels in the class underwent are indicated below, in a typical chronological order:
- Original twin mast configuration changed to single mast in front of the bridge, then moved behind the bridge for improved visibility.
- Heavy minesweeping gear removed for deep-sea escort work and to improve range.
- Galley relocated from the stern to midships.
- Extra depth-charge storage racks were fitted at the stern. Later, more depth charges stowed along walkways.
- HedgehogHedgehog (weapon)The Hedgehog was an anti-submarine weapon developed by the Royal Navy during World War II, that was deployed on convoy escort warships such as destroyers to supplement the depth charge. The weapon worked by firing a number of small spigot mortar bombs from spiked fittings...
fitted to enable remote attacks while keeping ASDIC contact. - Surface radar fitted in a "lantern" housing on the bridge.
- Forecastle lengthened to midships to provide more accommodation and better seaworthiness. Several vessels were given a "three-quarters length" extension.
- Increased flare at the bow. This and the above modification created the modified Flower design for subsequent orders.
- Various changes to the bridge, typically lowering and lengthening it. Enclosed compass house removed.
- Extra twin Lewis guns mounted on the bridge or engine room roof.
- Oerlikon 20 mm cannons fitted, usually two on the bridge wings but sometimes as many as six spread out along the engine-room roof, depending on the theatre of operations.
Note that any particular ship may have had any mix of these (including none), in any order, or other specialist one-off modifications. Ships allocated to other navies such as the RCN or USN usually had different armament (3 inch {76 mm}/50 cal) and deck layouts.
A major difference between the RN vessels and the RCN, USN, and other navies' vessels was the provision of upgraded ASDIC and radar. The RN was a world leader in developing these technologies, and thus RN Flowers were somewhat better equipped for remote detection of enemy submarines. A good example of this is the difficulty that RCN Flowers had in intercepting U-boats with their Canadian-designed SW1C metric radar while the RN vessels were equipped with the technologically advanced Type 271 centimetric sets. In addition, RCN vessels were incapable of operating gyrocompass
Gyrocompass
A gyrocompass is a type of non-magnetic compass which bases on a fast-spinning disc and rotation of our planet to automatically find geographical direction...
es, making ASDIC attacks more difficult.
Operations
Flower-class corvettes were used extensively by both the RN and RCN during the Battle of the Atlantic. They also saw limited service elsewhere with the RN, as well as the USN and several Allied navies such as the Royal Netherlands Navy, the Royal Norwegian Navy, the Royal Hellenic Navy, the Free French Naval Forces, the Royal Indian Navy, and the Royal New Zealand Navy.Most Royal Navy Flower-class ships drew their officers and crew from the Royal Naval Reserve
Royal Naval Reserve
The Royal Naval Reserve is the volunteer reserve force of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. The present Royal Naval Reserve was formed in 1958 by merging the original Royal Naval Reserve and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , a reserve of civilian volunteers founded in 1903...
and the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve
Royal Naval Reserve
The Royal Naval Reserve is the volunteer reserve force of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. The present Royal Naval Reserve was formed in 1958 by merging the original Royal Naval Reserve and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , a reserve of civilian volunteers founded in 1903...
(RNVR). Many RN Flowers had captains drawn from the Merchant Navy
Merchant Navy
The Merchant Navy is the maritime register of the United Kingdom, and describes the seagoing commercial interests of UK-registered ships and their crews. Merchant Navy vessels fly the Red Ensign and are regulated by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency...
.
Service on Flowers in the North Atlantic was typically cold, wet, monotonous and uncomfortable. Every dip of the fo'c'sle
Forecastle
Forecastle refers to the upper deck of a sailing ship forward of the foremast, or the forward part of a ship with the sailors' living quarters...
into an oncoming wave was followed by a cascade of water into the well deck amidships. Men at action stations were drenched with spray and water entered living spaces through hatches opened to access ammunition magazines. Interior decks were constantly wet and condensation dripped from the overheads. The head (or sanitary toilet) was drained by a straight pipe to the ocean; and a reverse flow of the icy North Atlantic would cleanse the backside of those using it during rough weather. By 1941, corvettes carried twice as many crewmen as anticipated in the original design. Men slept on lockers or tabletops or in any dark place that offered a little warmth. The warships were nicknamed "the pekingese
Pekingese
The Pekingese, or "Peke" is an ancient breed of toy dog, originating in China. The breed was favored by the Chinese Imperial court, and its name refers to the city of Beijing where the Forbidden City resides...
of the ocean". They had a reputation of having poor sea-handling characteristics, most often rolling
Rolling
Rolling is a combination of rotation and translation of that object with respect to a surface , such that the two are in contact with each other without sliding. This is achieved by a rotational speed at the cylinder or circle of contact which is equal to the translational speed...
in heavy seas, with complete 80-degree rolls (40 degrees each side of the normal upright position) being fairly common; it was said they "would roll on wet grass". Many crewmen suffered severe motion sickness for a few weeks until they acclimatised to shipboard life. It should be noted however, the general design of the Flowers was extremely seaworthy (just poor sea-handling characteristics), as no Allied sailor was ever lost overboard from a Flower during World War II, outside of enemy action.
A typical action by a Flower during convoy escort duties should she encounter a surfaced U-boat was to run directly at the submarine to force it to dive (thus limiting the speed and manoeuvrability of the U-boat). The corvette would then keep the submarine down and pre-occupied with avoiding depth charge attacks long enough to allow the convoy to safely pass. The 16 knots (31.4 km/h) top speed of the Flower-class ships made effective pursuit of a surfaced U-boat (approximately 17 knots) impossible, though it was adequate to manoeuvre around submerged U-boats or convoys, both of which ran at a typical maximum of 8 knots, and sometimes much less in poor weather. The low speed also made it difficult for Flowers to catch up to the convoy again after action.
This technique was hampered when the Kriegsmarine began deploying its U-boats in "wolf-pack" attacks, which were intended to overwhelm the escort warships of a convoy and allow at least one of the submarines to attack the merchant vessels. Upgrades in sensors and armament for the Flowers, such as radar, HF/DF, depth-charge projectors, and ASDIC, meant these small warships were well equipped to detect and defend against such attacks, but the tactical advantage often lay with the attackers, who could operate a cat-and-mouse series of attacks intended to draw the defending Flower off-station.
Success for the Flowers, therefore, should be measured in terms of tonnage protected, rather than U-boats sunk. Typical reports of convoy actions by these craft include numerous instances of U-boat detection near a convoy, followed by brief engagements using guns or depth-charges and a rapid return to station as another U-boat took advantage of the initial skirmish to attack the unguarded convoy. Continuous actions of this kind against a numerically superior U-boat pack demanded considerable seamanship skills from all concerned, and were very wearing on the crews.
Thirty-six ships in the class were lost during World War II, many due to enemy action, some to collision with Allied warships and merchant ships. One, sunk in shallow water, was raised and repaired. Of the vessels lost to enemy action, 22 were torpedoed by U-boats, five were mined
Naval mine
A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...
, and four were sunk by enemy aircraft. The Flower-class corvettes are credited with participating in the sinking of 47 German and four Italian submarines.
Construction of the Flower class was superseded toward the end of the war as larger shipyards concentrated on River-class
River class frigate
The River class frigate was a class of 151 frigates launched between 1941 and 1944 for use as anti-submarine convoy escorts in the North Atlantic....
frigate
Frigate
A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...
s, and smaller yards on the improved Castle-class
Castle class corvette
The Castle-class corvettes were an updated version of the much more numerous Flower-class corvettes of the Royal Navy, and started appearing during late 1943...
corvette design.
The Flower class represented fully half of all Allied convoy escort vessels in the North Atlantic during World War II.
Ships
The following tables list all Flower-class corvettes which served in the Allied navies during World War IIWorld War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
.
Free French Navy
| Ship | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Commissioned | Paid off | Fate |
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| Ailsa Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. Ailsa Shipbuilding Company -History:The company was founded in 1885 by the 3rd Marquess of Ailsa.In 1902 the Ailsa yard fitted out the polar exploration ship Scotia for the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04... , Troon Troon Troon is a town in South Ayrshire. It is situated on the west coast of Scotland, about eight miles north of Ayr and three miles northwest of Glasgow Prestwick International Airport. Lying across the Firth of Clyde, the Isle of Arran can be seen. Troon is also a port with freight and ferry services... |
25 Mar 1940 | 31 Mar 1941 | 23 Jul 1941 | 30 April 1947 | Formerly . Transferred on 23 Jul 1941 to the Free French Navy. Returned to RN on 30 Apr 1947. | |
| George Brown & Co., Greenock Greenock Greenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in United Kingdom, and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland... |
24 Jun 1940 | 3 Mar 1941 | 17 Jun 1941 | 9 Feb 1942 | Formerly . Transferred on 17 Jun 1941 to the Free French Navy. Torpedoed and sunk on 9 Feb 1942 by U-654 while escorting convoy ON-60 approximately 420 nautical miles (777.8 km) east of Cape Race Cape Race Cape Race is a point of land located at the southeastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. Its name is thought to come from the original Portuguese name for this cape, "Raso", or "bare"... at 46-00N, 44-00W. 36 crew were killed. |
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| Charles Hill & Sons Ltd. Charles Hill & Sons Charles Hill & Sons was a major shipbuilder based in Bristol, England, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Established in 1845, they specialised mainly in merchant and commercial ships, but also undertook the build of warships and governmental vessels especially during the First and Second World... , Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007... |
26 May 1941 | 17 Jan 1942 | 23 May 1942 | 31 May 1947 | Formerly . Transferred on 23 May 1942 to the Free French Navy upon completion. Returned to RN on 31 May 1947. | |
| Hall, Russell & Co. Hall, Russell & Company Hall, Russell & Company, Limited was a shipbuilder based in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK-History:Brothers James and William Hall, Thomas Russell, a Glasgow engineer, and James Cardno Couper founded the company in 1864 to build steam engines and boilers. In 1867 the company built its first ship, the Kwang... , Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
19 Sep 1940 | 9 Jun 1941 | 16 Sep 1941 | 1947 | Formerly . Transferred on 16 Sep 1941 to the Free French Navy. Returned to RN in 1947. | |
| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
17 Dec 1940 | 11 Apr 1941 | 15 Jan 1942 | May 1947 | Formerly . Transferred on 26 Jan 1942 to the Free French Navy. Returned to the RN in May 1947. | |
| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
18 Nov 1939 | 8 Apr 1940 | 22 Jun 1940 | 22 Jun 1940 | First and only Flower-class corvette commissioned into the French Navy before the Fall of France. Mined during sea trials off Hartlepool Hartlepool Hartlepool is a town and port in North East England.It was founded in the 7th century AD, around the Northumbrian monastery of Hartlepool Abbey. The village grew during the Middle Ages and developed a harbour which served as the official port of the County Palatine of Durham. A railway link from... on day of her commissioning. |
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| Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
27 Jun 1940 | 15 Feb 1941 | 16 Jul 1941 | Apr 1947 | Formerly . Transferred on 16 Jul 1941 to the Free French Navy. Returned to the RN in Apr 1947. | |
| Charles Hill & Sons Ltd. Charles Hill & Sons Charles Hill & Sons was a major shipbuilder based in Bristol, England, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Established in 1845, they specialised mainly in merchant and commercial ships, but also undertook the build of warships and governmental vessels especially during the First and Second World... , Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007... |
22 Apr 1940 | 18 Jan 1941 | 11 May 1941 | 9 Jun 1942 | Formerly . Transferred on 11 May 1941 to the Free French Navy. Torpedoed and sunk on 9 Jun 1942 by U-124 while escorting convoy ONS-100 at 52-12N, 32-37W. 58 French and 6 British crew were killed; the French crew being largely from Saint Pierre and Miquelon. 4 survivors rescued by . | |
| W. Simons & Co., Renfrew Renfrew -Local government:The town of Renfrew gave its name to a number of local government areas used at various times:*Renfrew a town to the west of Glasgow*Renfrewshire, the present unitary local council area in which Renfrew is situatated.... |
19 Jul 1940 | 25 Jun 1941 | 28 Jul 1941 | 1947 | Formerly . Transferred on 28 Jul 1941 to the Free French Navy. Returned to the RN in 1947. | |
| J. Lewis & Sons Ltd., Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
4 Nov 1940 | 28 May 1941 | 19 Sep 1941 | 1947 | Formerly . Transferred on 19 Sep 1941 to the Free French Navy. Returned to RN in 1947. | |
Royal Canadian Navy
| Ship | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Paid Off | Fate |
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| Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd. Burrard Dry Dock Burrard Dry Dock Ltd. was a Canadian shipbuilding company headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia . Together with the neighboring North Van Ship Repair yard and the Yarrows Ltd... , North Vancouver North Vancouver, British Columbia There are two municipalities in the Greater Vancouver region of British Columbia, Canada, that use the name North Vancouver. These are:*The City of North Vancouver... |
29 Apr 1940 | 15 Aug 1940 | 23 Jan 1941 | 14 Jun 1945 | Sold on 16 Nov 1945. | |
| Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt Esquimalt, British Columbia The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the west by Esquimalt Harbour and Royal Roads, to the northwest by the... |
29 Apr 1940 | 22 Aug 1940 | 4 Feb 1941 | 21 Aug 1944 | Torpedoed and sunk on 21 Aug 1944 by U-480 German submarine U-480 U-480 was an experimental Kriegsmarine Type VIIC U-boat of World War II, considered by many to be the first stealth submarine. It was equipped with a special rubber coating that made it harder to detect by British ASDIC sonar.-The coating:The Germans developed a... while escorting a convoy in the English Channel English Channel The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover... south of St. Catherine's Point at 50-18N, 00-51W. 59 crew killed and 31 rescued by RN motor torpedo boat Motor Torpedo Boat Motor Torpedo Boat was the name given to fast torpedo boats by the Royal Navy, and the Royal Canadian Navy.The capitalised term is generally used for the Royal Navy boats and abbreviated to "MTB"... s. |
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| Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co., Port Arthur Port Arthur, Ontario Port Arthur was a city in Northern Ontario which amalgamated with Fort William and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Port Arthur was the district seat of Thunder Bay District.- History :... |
18 Jun 1940 | 17 Dec 1940 | 11 Jul 1941 | 6 Jul 1945 | Transferred in 1945 to Venezuela Venezuela Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south... as Constitucion. |
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| Saint John Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. Saint John Shipbuilding Saint John Shipbuilding was a Canadian shipbuilding company located in Saint John, New Brunswick. It operated from 1923-2003.-History:Numerous shipyards were located on the shores of Courtney Bay in the east end of Saint John Harbour where extensive mud flats dried at low tide.In 1918 it was... , Saint John Saint John, New Brunswick City of Saint John , or commonly Saint John, is the largest city in the province of New Brunswick, and the first incorporated city in Canada. The city is situated along the north shore of the Bay of Fundy at the mouth of the Saint John River. In 2006 the city proper had a population of 74,043... |
23 May 1940 | 4 Dec 1940 | 5 Aug 1941 | 16 Jul 1945 | Wrecked in 1945 while under tow. | |
| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
11 Apr 1940 | 8 Aug 1940 | 22 Nov 1940 | 27 Jun 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to RCN 22 Nov 1940. Returned to RN 27 Jun 1945. | |
| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
28 Feb 1940 | 21 Sep 1940 | 22 May 1941 | 14 Jun 1945 | Sold in 1950 to Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula... as mercantile La Ceie. |
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| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
14 Aug 1940 | 20 Nov 1940 | 18 May 1941 | 4 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1947 as mercantile Efthai. | |
| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
4 Apr 1940 | 23 Nov 1940 | 12 May 1941 | 26 Jun 1945 | Sold in 1947 as mercantile Gasestado. | |
| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
30 Sep 1940 | 15 Apr 1941 | 31 Jul 1941 | 18 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1946 to Venezuela Venezuela Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south... as Libertad. |
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| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
17 Apr 1940 | 12 Sep 1940 | 23 Jan 1941 | 22 Jun 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to RCN 23 Jan 1941. Returned to RN 22 Jun 1945. | |
| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
10 Oct 1940 | 29 Apr 1941 | 22 Jul 1941 | 22 Jun 1945 | Sold on 5 Oct 1945. | |
| Midland Shipyards Ltd., Midland Midland, Ontario Midland is a town located on Georgian Bay in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.Situated at the southern end of Georgian Bay's 30,000 Islands, Midland is the economic centre of the region, with a 125-bed hospital and a local airport. It is the main town of the southern Georgian Bay area... |
24 Feb 1941 | 6 Sep 1941 | 15 May 1942 | 17 Aug 1945 | Sold in 1950 as mercantile Olympi Arrow. | |
| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
14 Aug 1940 | 20 Nov 1940 | 5 Jun 1941 | 15 Jun 1945 | Sold on 23 Oct 1945. Scrapped in 1949 at Hamilton Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe... . |
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| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
22 Mar 1941 | 23 Aug 1941 | 16 Dec 1941 | 19 Jun 1945 | Sold 30 Aug 1946. Scrapped 1951 at Hamilton Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe... . |
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| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
17 Sep 1940 | 16 Nov 1940 | 30 Jun 1941 | 22 Jul 1945 | Scrapped in Canada. | |
| Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America... |
20 Feb 1940 | 29 Jul 1940 | 18 Dec 1940 | 20 Jun 1945 | Sold in 1952 to the Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... as mercantile Sonia Vinkle. Scrapped in Oct 1966 at Santander Santander, Cantabria The port city of Santander is the capital of the autonomous community and historical region of Cantabria situated on the north coast of Spain. Located east of Gijón and west of Bilbao, the city has a population of 183,446 .-History:... . |
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| Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America... |
5 Jul 1940 | 16 Oct 1940 | 12 May 1941 | 16 Jun 1945 | Scrapped in 1946 at Hamilton Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe... . |
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| Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd. Burrard Dry Dock Burrard Dry Dock Ltd. was a Canadian shipbuilding company headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia . Together with the neighboring North Van Ship Repair yard and the Yarrows Ltd... , North Vancouver North Vancouver, British Columbia There are two municipalities in the Greater Vancouver region of British Columbia, Canada, that use the name North Vancouver. These are:*The City of North Vancouver... |
3 Jul 1940 | 14 Sep 1940 | 8 Apr 1941 | 14 Jul 1945 | Sold on 5 Oct 1945. Scrapped in 1946 at Hamilton Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe... . |
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| Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co., Port Arthur Port Arthur, Ontario Port Arthur was a city in Northern Ontario which amalgamated with Fort William and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Port Arthur was the district seat of Thunder Bay District.- History :... |
1 Apr 1940 | 17 Aug 1940 | 25 Nov 1940 | 17 Jun 1945 | Sold in 1953 to the Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... as mercantile Johanna W. Vinke. Scrapped 15 Dec 1961 in South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans... . |
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| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
2 Mar 1940 | 27 Jul 1940 | 19 Nov 1940 | 23 Jul 1945 | Scrapped in 1950 at Hamilton Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe... . |
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| Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America... |
6 Jul 1940 | 24 Oct 1940 | 17 May 1941 | 20 Jun 1945 | Sold in 1949 to Honduras Honduras Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize... as mercantile Cortes. |
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| Victoria Machinery Depot Co. Ltd. Victoria Machinery Depot Victoria Machinery Depot Ltd. was a ship builder located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.This was a historic metalworks and shipyard in Victoria, Canada. From the late 1850s on, with the Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Gold Rushes British Columbia was dependent upon Californian supplies and ships... , Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian... |
7 Sep 1940 | 8 Feb 1941 | 6 Oct 1941 | 19 Jun 1945 | Scrapped in 1946 at Hamilton Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe... . |
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| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
4 Dec 1940 | 5 Jul 1941 | 13 Sep 1941 | 11 Jul 1945 | Scrapped in 1949 at Hamilton Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe... . |
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| Victoria Machinery Depot Co. Ltd. Victoria Machinery Depot Victoria Machinery Depot Ltd. was a ship builder located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.This was a historic metalworks and shipyard in Victoria, Canada. From the late 1850s on, with the Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Gold Rushes British Columbia was dependent upon Californian supplies and ships... , Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian... |
19 Mar 1941 | 25 Jul 1941 | 1 Apr 1942 | 17 Jul 1945 | Sold on 23 Oct 1945. | |
| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
30 Aug 1940 | 11 Dec 1940 | 9 Sep 1941 | 3 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1946 to Venezuela Venezuela Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south... as Independencia. Scrapped in 1953. |
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| Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt Esquimalt, British Columbia The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the west by Esquimalt Harbour and Royal Roads, to the northwest by the... |
23 Aug 1940 | 22 Feb 1941 | 21 Oct 1941 | 16 Jun 1945 | Sold in 1948 to Liberia Liberia Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open... as mercantile Amapala. |
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| Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America... |
20 Feb 1940 | 22 Jul 1940 | 26 Nov 1940 | 17 Jun 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to RCN 26 Nov 1940. Returned to RN 17 Jun 1945. | |
| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
29 Mar 1940 | 20 Aug 1940 | 15 May 1941 | 12 Jun 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to RCN 15 May 1941. Returned to RN 12 Jun 1945. | |
| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
22 Mar 1941 | 2 Sep 1941 | 8 Dec 1941 | 14 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1946 as mercantile Tra Los Montes. Resold in 1950 as whaler Olympic Fighter and in 1956 as Otori Maru No. 6. | |
| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
27 May 1940 | 28 Dec 1940 | 15 May 1941 | 21 Jun 1945 | Sold on 5 Oct 1945. Scrapped in 1946 at Hamilton Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe... . |
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| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
26 Apr 1941 | 4 Oct 1941 | 26 Nov 1941 | 12 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1945 as mercantile Halifax. | |
| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
24 Feb 1940 | 6 Jul 1940 | 15 May 1941 | 27 Jun 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to RCN 15 May 1941. Returned to RN 27 Jun 1945. | |
| Victoria Machinery Depot Co. Ltd. Victoria Machinery Depot Victoria Machinery Depot Ltd. was a ship builder located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.This was a historic metalworks and shipyard in Victoria, Canada. From the late 1850s on, with the Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Gold Rushes British Columbia was dependent upon Californian supplies and ships... , Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian... |
29 Apr 1940 | 7 Aug 1940 | 17 Mar 1941 | 27 Jun 1945 | Sold on 19 Oct 1945. | |
| Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co., Port Arthur Port Arthur, Ontario Port Arthur was a city in Northern Ontario which amalgamated with Fort William and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Port Arthur was the district seat of Thunder Bay District.- History :... |
20 Nov 1940 | 5 May 1941 | 4 Oct 1941 | 22 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1945 to Venezuela Venezuela Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south... as Carabobo. Lost in Dec 1945. |
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| Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co., Port Arthur Port Arthur, Ontario Port Arthur was a city in Northern Ontario which amalgamated with Fort William and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Port Arthur was the district seat of Thunder Bay District.- History :... |
20 Apr 1940 | 5 Sep 1940 | 29 Jun 1941 | 9 Jul 1945 | Scrapped in Jan 1950 in Canada. | |
| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
28 Feb 1941 | 18 Nov 1941 | 28 Jun 1942 | 11 Jul 1945 | Formerly . Scrapped in Sep 1949 in Canada. | |
| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
22 Mar 1941 | 25 Oct 1941 | 28 Apr 1942 | 28 Jun 1945 | Formerly . Sold on 17 Oct 1945. | |
| Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America... |
5 Aug 1940 | 21 Nov 1940 | 25 Jun 1941 | 23 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1952 to the Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... as mercantile Nicolaas Vinke. Scrapped in Sep 1966 at Santander Santander, Cantabria The port city of Santander is the capital of the autonomous community and historical region of Cantabria situated on the north coast of Spain. Located east of Gijón and west of Bilbao, the city has a population of 183,446 .-History:... . |
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| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
11 Mar 1940 | 4 Sep 1940 | 16 May 1941 | 19 Sep 1941 | Torpedoed and sunk 19 Sep 1941 by U-74 while escorting convoy SC-44 east of Cape Farewell Cape Farewell, Greenland Cape Farewell , is a headland on the southern shore of Egger Island, Greenland. Located at it is the southernmost extent of Greenland, projecting out into the North Atlantic Ocean and the Labrador Sea on the same latitude as Stockholm and the Scottish Shetland Islands. Egger and the associated... at 60-07N, 38-37W. 18 crew killed and 91 rescued. |
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| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
4 Oct 1940 | 27 May 1941 | 2 Oct 1941 | 6 Feb 1943 | Bombed and torpedoed on 6 Feb 1943 by Luftwaffe aircraft while escorting convoy KMF-8 off Cape Tenes in Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant... at 36-15N, 00-15E. 59 crew killed, 50 rescued. |
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| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
28 Sep 1940 | 10 Jul 1941 | 4 Dec 1941 | 23 Jul 1945 | Scrapped in Jun 1946 in Canada. | |
| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
2 Feb 1940 | 14 Sep 1940 | 9 May 1941 | 16 Jun 1945 | Scrapped in Dec 1950 in Canada. | |
| Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America... |
20 Feb 1940 | 3 Jul 1940 | 15 May 1941 | 31 May 1945 | Formerly HMS Mayflower. Transferred to the RCN 15 May 1941. Returned to RN 31 May 1945. | |
| Midland Shipyards Ltd., Midland Midland, Ontario Midland is a town located on Georgian Bay in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.Situated at the southern end of Georgian Bay's 30,000 Islands, Midland is the economic centre of the region, with a 125-bed hospital and a local airport. It is the main town of the southern Georgian Bay area... |
24 Feb 1941 | 25 Jun 1941 | 17 Nov 1941 | 15 Jul 1945 | Sold on 19 Nov 1945. Scrapped in 1946 at Fort William Fort William, Ontario Fort William was a city in Northern Ontario, located on the Kaministiquia River, at its entrance to Lake Superior. It amalgamated with Port Arthur and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Ever since then it has been the largest city in Northwestern... . |
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| Saint John Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. Saint John Shipbuilding Saint John Shipbuilding was a Canadian shipbuilding company located in Saint John, New Brunswick. It operated from 1923-2003.-History:Numerous shipyards were located on the shores of Courtney Bay in the east end of Saint John Harbour where extensive mud flats dried at low tide.In 1918 it was... , Saint John Saint John, New Brunswick City of Saint John , or commonly Saint John, is the largest city in the province of New Brunswick, and the first incorporated city in Canada. The city is situated along the north shore of the Bay of Fundy at the mouth of the Saint John River. In 2006 the city proper had a population of 74,043... |
17 Dec 1940 | 11 Aug 1941 | 24 Apr 1942 | 12 Dec 1945 | Sold in 1955 to the Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... as mercantile Willem Vinke. Scrapped in 1966 at Santander Santander, Cantabria The port city of Santander is the capital of the autonomous community and historical region of Cantabria situated on the north coast of Spain. Located east of Gijón and west of Bilbao, the city has a population of 183,446 .-History:... . |
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| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
12 Aug 1940 | 9 Apr 1941 | 19 Jun 1941 | 8 Jul 1945 | Scrapped in Sep 1949 in Canada. | |
| Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co., Port Arthur Port Arthur, Ontario Port Arthur was a city in Northern Ontario which amalgamated with Fort William and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Port Arthur was the district seat of Thunder Bay District.- History :... |
25 Oct 1940 | 5 May 1941 | 6 Sep 1941 | 29 Jun 1945 | Scrapped in Nov 1946 in Canada. | |
| Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt Esquimalt, British Columbia The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the west by Esquimalt Harbour and Royal Roads, to the northwest by the... |
27 Apr 1940 | 28 Oct 1940 | 26 Apr 1941 | 28 Sep 1945 | Sold in 1953 to the Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... as mercantile Rene W. Vinke. |
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| Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Kingston Kingston, Ontario Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post... |
20 Mar 1940 | 31 Aug 1940 | 12 May 1941 | 12 Jul 1945 | Scrapped in Jun 1946 in Canada. | |
| Victoria Machinery Depot Co. Ltd. Victoria Machinery Depot Victoria Machinery Depot Ltd. was a ship builder located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.This was a historic metalworks and shipyard in Victoria, Canada. From the late 1850s on, with the Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Gold Rushes British Columbia was dependent upon Californian supplies and ships... , Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian... |
4 Feb 1941 | 14 May 1941 | 31 Jan 1942 | 21 Jun 1945 | Sold in 1950 as mercantile Elisa. Resold in 1952 as mercantile Portoviejo and in 1954 as mercantile Azura. Scrapped in 1966 at Tampa Tampa, Florida Tampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709.... . |
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| Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co., Port Arthur Port Arthur, Ontario Port Arthur was a city in Northern Ontario which amalgamated with Fort William and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Port Arthur was the district seat of Thunder Bay District.- History :... |
21 Dec 1940 | 21 Jun 1941 | 18 Nov 1941 | 20 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1946 to Venezuela Venezuela Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south... as Patria. |
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| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
4 Mar 1940 | 15 Sep 1940 | 25 Nov 1940 | 2 Jul 1945 | Scrapped in Jan 1951 in Canada. | |
| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
12 Jul 1940 | 5 Oct 1940 | 29 Apr 1941 | 12 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1950 as mercantile Olympic Chaser. Resold in 1956 as mercantile Otori Maru No. 7. Converted in 1963 to a barge. | |
| Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co., Port Arthur Port Arthur, Ontario Port Arthur was a city in Northern Ontario which amalgamated with Fort William and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Port Arthur was the district seat of Thunder Bay District.- History :... |
28 Apr 1941 | 18 Sep 1941 | 26 May 1942 | 11 Jul 1945 | Sold on 23 Oct 1945. Scrapped in 1948 at Hamilton Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe... . |
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| Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Kingston Kingston, Ontario Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post... |
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| Victoria Machinery Depot Co. Ltd. Victoria Machinery Depot Victoria Machinery Depot Ltd. was a ship builder located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.This was a historic metalworks and shipyard in Victoria, Canada. From the late 1850s on, with the Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Gold Rushes British Columbia was dependent upon Californian supplies and ships... , Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian... |
9 May 1940 | 12 Nov 1940 | 23 May 1941 | 3 Jul 1945 | Sold on 5 Oct 1945. Scrapped in 1946 at Hamilton Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe... . |
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| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
22 Mar 1941 | 14 Oct 1941 | 22 Jan 1942 | 8 Aug 1944 | Torpedoed and sunk on 8 Aug 1944 by U-667 off Trevose Head Trevose Head Trevose Head is a headland on the Atlantic coast of north Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately west of Padstow. The South West Coast Path runs around the whole promontory and is within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Trevose Head Heritage Coast... at 50-42N, 05-03W. 30 crew were killed. |
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| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
12 Jul 1940 | 3 Oct 1940 | 26 Apr 1941 | 24 Jul 1945 | Scrapped in Dec 1950 in Canada. | |
| Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co., Port Arthur Port Arthur, Ontario Port Arthur was a city in Northern Ontario which amalgamated with Fort William and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Port Arthur was the district seat of Thunder Bay District.- History :... |
18 Jun 1940 | 30 Nov 1940 | 17 Jun 1941 | 19 Jul 1945 | Scrapped in Jun 1946 in Canada. | |
| Saint John Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. Saint John Shipbuilding Saint John Shipbuilding was a Canadian shipbuilding company located in Saint John, New Brunswick. It operated from 1923-2003.-History:Numerous shipyards were located on the shores of Courtney Bay in the east end of Saint John Harbour where extensive mud flats dried at low tide.In 1918 it was... , Saint John Saint John, New Brunswick City of Saint John , or commonly Saint John, is the largest city in the province of New Brunswick, and the first incorporated city in Canada. The city is situated along the north shore of the Bay of Fundy at the mouth of the Saint John River. In 2006 the city proper had a population of 74,043... |
28 May 1940 | 15 May 1941 | 30 Dec 1941 | 8 Apr 1946 | Transferred in 1953 to Department of Fisheries Fisheries and Oceans Canada Fisheries and Oceans Canada, frequently referred to as DFO , is the department within the government of Canada that is responsible for developing and implementing policies and programs in support of Canada's economic, ecological and scientific interests in oceans and inland waters... as research ship Sackville. Acquired in 1982 by the Canadian Naval Corvette Trust and restored to 1944 configuration. Now a museum ship Museum ship A museum ship, or sometimes memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public, for educational or memorial purposes... at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Maritime Museum of the Atlantic The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is a Canadian maritime museum located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia.The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is a member institution of the Nova Scotia Museum and is the oldest and largest maritime museum in Canada with a collection of over 30,000 artifacts... in Halifax City of Halifax Halifax is a city in Canada, which was the capital of the province of Nova Scotia and shire town of Halifax County. It was the largest city in Atlantic Canada until it was amalgamated into Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996... , operated by the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust. Sackville is the last remaining Flower-class corvette. |
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| Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America... |
9 Aug 1940 | 7 Nov 1940 | 9 Jun 1941 | 25 Jun 1945 | Sold in 1948 as whaling ship Tra los Montes. Resold in 1950 as mercantile Olympic Fighter, in 1956 as Otori Maru No. 6, and in 1961 as Kyo Maru No. 20. | |
| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
4 Jun 1940 | 16 May 1941 | 19 Sep 1941 | 25 Nov 1944 | Torpedoed and sunk with all hands 25 Nov 1944 by U-1228 in the Cabot Strait Cabot Strait Cabot Strait is a strait in eastern Canada approximately 110 kilometres wide between Cape Ray, Newfoundland and Cape North, Cape Breton Island. It is the widest of the three outlets for the Gulf of Saint Lawrence into the Atlantic Ocean, the others being the Strait of Belle Isle and Strait of Canso... at 47-34N, 59-11W. |
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| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
5 Oct 1940 | 29 Apr 1941 | 8 Jul 1941 | 28 Aug 1945 | Sold in 1954 to the Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... as mercantile Jooske W. Vinke. Scrapped in 1966 at Santander Santander, Cantabria The port city of Santander is the capital of the autonomous community and historical region of Cantabria situated on the north coast of Spain. Located east of Gijón and west of Bilbao, the city has a population of 183,446 .-History:... . |
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| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
5 Aug 1940 | 25 Oct 1940 | 5 Jun 1941 | 28 Jun 1945 | Scrapped in May 1947 in Canada. | |
| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
24 Feb 1940 | 8 Aug 1940 | 26 Nov 1940 | 8 Jun 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the RCN on 26 Nov 1940. Returned to the RN on 8 Jun 1945. | |
| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
24 Aug 1940 | 16 Nov 1940 | 19 Aug 1941 | 22 Jun 1945 | Sold on 16 Nov 1945. | |
| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
24 Feb 1940 | 10 Aug 1940 | 15 May 1941 | 11 Feb 1942 | Formerly . Transferred to RCN 15 May 1941. Torpedoed and sunk on 11 Feb 1942 by U-136 while escorting convoy SC-67 west of Malin Head Malin Head Malin Head , on the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal, is usually given as the most northerly headland of the mainland of Ireland . In fact, the most northerly point is actually a headland named Banba's Crown on the Inishowen Peninsula about 2 km to the northeast... at 56-10N, 21-07W. 8 crew survived. |
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| Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Kingston Kingston, Ontario Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post... |
25 Jan 1941 | 31 May 1941 | 15 Oct 1941 | 28 Aug 1945 | Sold in 1949 as mercantile Sudbury. Scrapped 1967. | |
| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
4 Oct 1940 | 7 May 1941 | 11 Sep 1941 | 6 Jul 1945 | Scrapped in Jun 1946 in Canada. | |
| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
7 Jan 1941 | 16 Aug 1941 | 21 Oct 1941 | 24 Jul 1945 | Sold on 16 Sep 1945. Scrapped 1946 at Hamilton Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe... . |
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| Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt Esquimalt, British Columbia The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the west by Esquimalt Harbour and Royal Roads, to the northwest by the... |
14 Dec 1940 | 26 Jun 1941 | 10 Feb 1942 | 15 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1948 as mercantile Guayaquil. Lost on 3 Aug 1960. | |
| Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd. Burrard Dry Dock Burrard Dry Dock Ltd. was a Canadian shipbuilding company headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia . Together with the neighboring North Van Ship Repair yard and the Yarrows Ltd... , North Vancouver North Vancouver, British Columbia There are two municipalities in the Greater Vancouver region of British Columbia, Canada, that use the name North Vancouver. These are:*The City of North Vancouver... |
20 Jul 1940 | 16 Oct 1940 | 30 Apr 1941 | 17 Jul 1945 | Scrapped in Aug 1950 in Canada. | |
| Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America... |
20 Feb 1940 | 26 Jun 1940 | 31 Oct 1940 | 27 Jun 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to RCN 31 Oct 1940. Returned to RN 27 Jun 1945. | |
| Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt Esquimalt, British Columbia The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the west by Esquimalt Harbour and Royal Roads, to the northwest by the... |
16 Jun 1941 | 26 Aug 1941 | 20 Mar 1942 | 26 Jun 1945 | Formerly . | |
| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
7 Jun 1941 | 12 Nov 1941 | 24 May 1942 | 6 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1946 as mercantile Dispina. Resold in 1947 as mercantile Dorothea Paxos, in 1948 as Tanya, and in 1949 as Medex. | |
| Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd. Burrard Dry Dock Burrard Dry Dock Ltd. was a Canadian shipbuilding company headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia . Together with the neighboring North Van Ship Repair yard and the Yarrows Ltd... , North Vancouver North Vancouver, British Columbia There are two municipalities in the Greater Vancouver region of British Columbia, Canada, that use the name North Vancouver. These are:*The City of North Vancouver... |
11 Apr 1940 | 18 Jul 1940 | 17 Dec 1940 | 19 Jun 1945 | Formerly . Sold in 1946 to Venezuela Venezuela Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south... as Victor. |
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| Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co., Port Arthur Port Arthur, Ontario Port Arthur was a city in Northern Ontario which amalgamated with Fort William and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Port Arthur was the district seat of Thunder Bay District.- History :... |
21 Dec 1940 | 26 Jul 1941 | 26 Nov 1941 | 22 Feb 1943 | Mined on 22 Feb 1943 off Cape Espartel at 36-46N, 06-02W. 7 crew were killed. | |
| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
25 Feb 1940 | 4 Jul 1940 | 15 May 1941 | 7 Dec 1941 | Formerly . Transferred to RCN 15 May 1941. Sunk 7 Dec 1941 while escorting convoy SC-58 after collision with freighter Zypenberg in dense fog on the Grand Banks at 46-19N, 49-30W. 23 crew were lost. | |
| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
23 May 1941 | 10 Dec 1941 | 1 May 1942 | 27 Jan 1945 | Sold in 1951 as mercantile Olympic Winner. Resold in 1956 as mercantile Otori Maru 20 and in 1957 as Akitsu Maru. Scrapped in 1975 at Etajima. | |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
19 Aug 1940 | 28 Nov 1940 | 3 Feb 1941 | Torpedoed and badly damaged on 9 Jan 1944 by a U-boat U-boat U-boat is the anglicized version of the German word U-Boot , itself an abbreviation of Unterseeboot , and refers to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II... . Sold in 1947. Resold in 1948 as mercantile Kraft. Resold in 1954 as mercantile Arne Skontorp. Scrapped in 1966 in Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... . |
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| Ailsa Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. Ailsa Shipbuilding Company -History:The company was founded in 1885 by the 3rd Marquess of Ailsa.In 1902 the Ailsa yard fitted out the polar exploration ship Scotia for the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04... , Troon Troon Troon is a town in South Ayrshire. It is situated on the west coast of Scotland, about eight miles north of Ayr and three miles northwest of Glasgow Prestwick International Airport. Lying across the Firth of Clyde, the Isle of Arran can be seen. Troon is also a port with freight and ferry services... |
21 Dec 1939 | 26 May 1941 | Transferred on 1 Oct 1941 before completion to Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... as . |
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| Ailsa Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. Ailsa Shipbuilding Company -History:The company was founded in 1885 by the 3rd Marquess of Ailsa.In 1902 the Ailsa yard fitted out the polar exploration ship Scotia for the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04... , Troon Troon Troon is a town in South Ayrshire. It is situated on the west coast of Scotland, about eight miles north of Ayr and three miles northwest of Glasgow Prestwick International Airport. Lying across the Firth of Clyde, the Isle of Arran can be seen. Troon is also a port with freight and ferry services... |
25 Mar 1940 | 31 Mar 1941 | Transferred on 23 Jul 1941 to the Free French Navy as . Returned to RN on 30 Apr 1947. Sold in Jul 1947. | |||
| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
19 Aug 1940 | 17 Dec 1940 | 13 Feb 1941 | Sold in 1947. Resold in 1949 as mercantile Laconia, in 1950 as mercantile Constantinos S, and in 1952 as mercantile Parnon. Sunk 16 Jul 1954. | ||
| George Brown & Co., Greenock Greenock Greenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in United Kingdom, and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland... |
24 Jun 1940 | 3 Mar 1941 | Transferred on 17 Jun 1941 to the Free French Navy as . | |||
| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
4 May 1940 | 17 Oct 1940 | 12 Feb 1941 | Sold in 1946 as mercantile ship. Scrapped in 1953 at Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour... . |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
17 Sep 1940 | 15 Jan 1941 | 1 Mar 194 | Sold in 1946. Resold in 1949 as mercantile Silverlord and in 1954 as mercantile Sir Edgar. Sunk 18 Jan 1960. Salvaged and scrapped in Mauritius Mauritius Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar... . |
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| Blyth Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Ltd., Blyth Blyth, Northumberland Blyth is a town and civil parish in southeast Northumberland, England. It lies on the coast, to the south of the River Blyth and is approximately 21 kilometres northeast of Newcastle upon Tyne... |
26 Oct 1939 | 22 Apr 1940 | 12 Aug 1940 | Sold in Nov 1949. Resold on 3 Oct 1950 to Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... as buoy tender Pelkan, 1951 as whaler, and Dec 1963 as Østfold. Scrapped 1 Nov 1964. |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
30 Oct 1939 | 14 Feb 1940 | 5 Apr 1940 | 30 Apr 1942 | Transferred on 30 Apr 1942 to the United States Navy as . Returned to RN 26 Aug 1945 and renamed . Sold in 1947 as mercantile Katina. | |
| Blyth Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Ltd., Blyth Blyth, Northumberland Blyth is a town and civil parish in southeast Northumberland, England. It lies on the coast, to the south of the River Blyth and is approximately 21 kilometres northeast of Newcastle upon Tyne... |
30 Nov 1939 | 5 Jun 1940 | 12 Oct 1940 | 5 Feb 1942 | Torpedoed and sunk on 5 Feb 1942 by U-136 west of Erris Head at 55-05N, 18-43W. Shared sinking of U-70 7 Mar 41. Probable shared sinking of U-47 same day. | |
| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
17 Sep 1940 | 16 Jan 1941 | 28 Mar 1941 | Sold in 1947. Resold in 1948 as mercantile Deppie, in 1950 as mercantile Canastel, in 1952 as mercantile Rio Blanco and in 1955 as mercantile Lillian. | ||
| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
11 Apr 1940 | 8 Aug 1940 | Transferred on 22 Nov 1940 before completion to RCN as . Returned RN 27 Jun 1945. Sold in May 1947. Resold in 1948 as mercantile Southern Larkspur. Scrapped in Nov 1959 at Odense Odense The city of Odense is the third largest city in Denmark.Odense City has a population of 167,615 and is the main city of the island of Funen... . |
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| George Brown & Co., Greenock Greenock Greenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in United Kingdom, and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland... |
20 Oct 1939 | 25 May 1940 | 11 Sep 1940 | 10 Mar 1944 | Torpedoed and sunk 10 Mar 1944 by U-575 :de:U 575 while escorting convoys SL-150 and MKS-41 at 45-24N, 18-09W. 92 crew were killed, 5 survivors rescued by . | |
| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
15 Oct 1940 | 12 Feb 1941 | 9 Apr 1941 | Scrapped on 29 May 1946 at Bo'ness Bo'ness Bo'ness, properly Borrowstounness, is a coastal town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on a hillside on the south bank of the Firth of Forth within the Falkirk council area, north-west of Edinburgh and east of Falkirk. At the 2001 census, Bo'ness had a resident population of 13,961... . |
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| George Brown & Co., Greenock Greenock Greenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in United Kingdom, and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland... |
27 Oct 1939 | 5 Sep 1940 | 23 Dec 1940 | Sold on 29 Jul 1946. Resold in Oct 1948 as buoy tender Arnfinn Bergan. Resold in 1951 as whaling ship. | ||
| George Brown & Co., Greenock Greenock Greenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in United Kingdom, and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland... |
25 Nov 1939 | 14 Nov 1940 | 5 Mar 1941 | 6 May 1942 | Mined on 6 May 1942 in Courrier Bay, Madagascar Madagascar The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa... at 12-12S, 49-19E. Foundered the following day while under tow. |
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| Cook, Welton & Gemmell Cook, Welton & Gemmell Cook, Welton and Gemmell was a shipbuilders based in Hull and Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire. England.The firm was founded in 1883 on South Bridge Road, Hull, on the Humber bank. The founding partners were William James Cook, Charles Keen Welton and William Gemmell... , Beverley Beverley Beverley is a market town, civil parish and the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, located between the River Hull and the Westwood. The town is noted for Beverley Minster and architecturally-significant religious buildings along New Walk and other areas, as well as the Beverley... |
15 Nov 1939 | 8 Jul 1940 | 27 Jan 1941 | Sold on 5 Apr 1946 as mercantile Norte. Sunk on 19 Jan 1955. | ||
| George Brown & Co., Greenock Greenock Greenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in United Kingdom, and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland... |
16 Apr 1941 | 30 May 1942 | 28 Nov 1942 | Formerly . Scrapped on 20 Apr 1947 at Newport Newport Newport is a city and unitary authority area in Wales. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, it is located about east of Cardiff and is the largest urban area within the historic county boundaries of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent... . |
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| Cook, Welton & Gemmell Cook, Welton & Gemmell Cook, Welton and Gemmell was a shipbuilders based in Hull and Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire. England.The firm was founded in 1883 on South Bridge Road, Hull, on the Humber bank. The founding partners were William James Cook, Charles Keen Welton and William Gemmell... , Beverley Beverley Beverley is a market town, civil parish and the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, located between the River Hull and the Westwood. The town is noted for Beverley Minster and architecturally-significant religious buildings along New Walk and other areas, as well as the Beverley... |
13 Mar 1940 | 18 Sep 1940 | 3 Mar 1941 | 10 Mar 1942 | Transferred on 10 Mar 1942 to the USN as . Returned to the RN on 22 Aug 1945. Sold on 22 Jul 1946 as mercantile Begonlock. Resold in 1949 as mercantile Fundiciones Molinao, in 1951as mercantile Astiluzu and in 1956 as mercantile Rio Mero. | |
| George Brown & Co., Greenock Greenock Greenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in United Kingdom, and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland... |
17 Sep 1940 | 11 Aug 1941 | 20 Nov 1941 | Transferred in 1946 to the Irish Naval Service Irish Naval Service The Naval Service is the navy of Ireland and is one of the three standing branches of the Irish Defence Forces. Its main base is in Haulbowline, County Cork.... as Cliona. |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
15 Oct 1940 | 15 Feb 1941 | 12 May 1941 | Sold in May 1946 as mercantile ship. Resold in 1947 as mercantile Syros, in 1951 as mercantile Delphini and in 1955 as mercantile Ekaterini. | ||
| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
17 Apr 1940 | 12 Sep 1940 | Transferred on 23 Jan 1941 before completion to the RCN as on 23 Jan 1941. Returned to the RN on 22 Jun 1945. Scrapped in Nov 1950. | |||
| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
25 Oct 1939 | 24 Apr 1940 | 19 Jul 1940 | 17 Feb 1945 | Torpedoed and sunk on 17 Feb 1945 by U-711 off the Kola Inlet Kola Peninsula The Kola Peninsula is a peninsula in the far northwest of Russia. Constituting the bulk of the territory of Murmansk Oblast, it lies almost completely to the north of the Arctic Circle and is washed by the Barents Sea in the north and the White Sea in the east and southeast... at 69-36N, 35-29E. |
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| George Brown & Co., Greenock Greenock Greenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in United Kingdom, and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland... |
27 Nov 1940 | 22 Nov 1941 | 29 Apr 1942 | Transferred on 15 Nov 1946 to the Irish Naval Service as LÉ Macha LÉ Macha (01) LÉ Macha was a ship in the Irish Naval Service. Built as a of the Royal Navy named , she was transferred on 15 Nov 1946 to the Irish Naval Service and renamed LÉ Macha after Macha, an ancient Irish goddess of war.... . Sold for scrap on 22 Nov 1970. |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
16 Nov 1940 | 15 Mar 1941 | 4 Jun 1942 | Bombed and sunk by the Luftwaffe on 15 Apr 1941 during sea trials. Raised and repaired. Transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Royal Norwegian Navy The Royal Norwegian Navy is the branch of the Norwegian Defence Force responsible for naval operations. , the RNoN consists of approximately 3,700 personnel and 70 vessels, including 5 heavy frigates, 6 submarines, 14 patrol boats, 4 minesweepers, 4 minehunters, 1 mine detection vessel, 4 support... in 1947 as . |
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| John Crown & Sons Ltd., Sunderland | 13 Jun 1940 | 14 Dec 1940 | 27 Mar 1941 | Sold in Jun 1946. Scrapped in Aug 1946 at Hayle Hayle Hayle is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated at the mouth of the Hayle River and is approximately seven miles northeast of Penzance... . |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
17 Dec 1940 | 10 Apr 1941 | 24 Apr 1942 | 20 Dec 1944 | Transferred on 20 Dec 1944 to Royal Norwegian Navy as . Purchased in 1946 by Norway and renamed . | |
| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
30 Oct 1939 | 21 Mar 1940 | 6 May 1940 | 12 Mar 1942 | Transferred on 12 Mar 1942 to the USN as . Returned to the RN on 23 Aug 1945. Sold on 22 Jul 1946. Resold in 1948 as mercantile Villa Cisneros and in 1949 as mercantile Villa Bens. | |
| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
14 Nov 1939 | 4 May 1940 | 18 Jun 1940 | Shared sinking of U-70 7 Mar 41. Probable shared sinking of U-47 same day. Sold on 9 Aug 1946. Resold in 1948 as mercantile Hetty W. Vinkle. | ||
| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
26 Oct 1939 | 23 May 1940 | 6 Sep 1940 | Scrapped on 21 Aug 1947 at Dunstan Dunstan Dunstan was an Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, a Bishop of Worcester, a Bishop of London, and an Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church... . Nicholas Monsarrat Nicholas Monsarrat Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat RNVR was a British novelist known today for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea and Three Corvettes , but perhaps best known internationally for his novels, The Tribe That Lost Its Head and its sequel, Richer Than All His Tribe.- Early life :Born... served as officer on board . |
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| John Crown & Sons Ltd., Sunderland | 16 Sep 1940 | 20 Jun 1941 | 7 Jul 1941 | Sold on 20 Apr 1947 and scrapped at Newport Newport Newport is a city and unitary authority area in Wales. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, it is located about east of Cardiff and is the largest urban area within the historic county boundaries of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent... . |
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| Grangemouth Dry Dock Co., Grangemouth Grangemouth Grangemouth is a town and former burgh in the council area of Falkirk, Scotland. The town lies in the Forth Valley, on the banks of the Firth of Forth, east of Falkirk, west of Bo'ness and south-east of Stirling. Grangemouth had a resident population of 17,906 according to the 2001... |
31 Oct 1939 | 8 Jul 1940 | 16 Oct 1940 | 4 Mar 1942 | Transferred on 4 Mar 1942 to the USN as . Returned to the RN on 26 Aug 1945. Sold on 9 Jul 1946. Resold in 1947 as mercantile Maw Hwa. | |
| Grangemouth Dry Dock Co., Grangemouth Grangemouth Grangemouth is a town and former burgh in the council area of Falkirk, Scotland. The town lies in the Forth Valley, on the banks of the Firth of Forth, east of Falkirk, west of Bo'ness and south-east of Stirling. Grangemouth had a resident population of 17,906 according to the 2001... |
31 Oct 1939 | 8 Jul 1940 | 16 Oct 1940 | Transferred on 26 Mar 1943 to the Royal Netherlands Navy Royal Netherlands Navy The Koninklijke Marine is the navy of the Netherlands. In the mid-17th century the Dutch Navy was the most powerful navy in the world and it played an active role in the wars of the Dutch Republic and later those of the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands... as . Returned to the RN on 4 Oct 1944. Sold on 31 Mar 1948 as mercantile ship. Resold in 1949 as mercantile Southern Laurel. Scarpped in 1966 at Stravanger. |
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| Grangemouth Dry Dock Co., Grangemouth Grangemouth Grangemouth is a town and former burgh in the council area of Falkirk, Scotland. The town lies in the Forth Valley, on the banks of the Firth of Forth, east of Falkirk, west of Bo'ness and south-east of Stirling. Grangemouth had a resident population of 17,906 according to the 2001... |
30 Apr 1940 | 28 Dec 1940 | 30 Apr 1941 | Shared sinking of U-556 27 June 41. Sold in Oct 1948 and scrapped at Portaferry Portaferry Portaferry is a small town in County Down, Northern Ireland, at the southern end of the Ards Peninsula, near the Narrows at the entrance to Strangford Lough. It had a population of 2,467 people in the 2001 Census. It has an aquarium and is well-known for the annual Galway Hookers Regatta. It hosts... . |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
17 Dec 1940 | 11 Apr 1941 | Transferred on 26 Jan 1942 to the Free French Navy as . Returned to the RN in May 1947. Sold on 7 Aug 1947. Resold in 1948 as mercantile Terje X. Resold in 23 May 1959 to Portugal Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the... as hydrographic survey vessel NRP Caravalho Araujo (A524) until 3 Sep 1975 when she was transfer to Angola Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city... 's Navy. |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
30 Oct 1939 | 7 Mar 1940 | 22 Apr 1940 | Sold on 30 Jul 1947 for scrap. | ||
| Charles Hill & Sons Ltd. Charles Hill & Sons Charles Hill & Sons was a major shipbuilder based in Bristol, England, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Established in 1845, they specialised mainly in merchant and commercial ships, but also undertook the build of warships and governmental vessels especially during the First and Second World... , Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007... |
11 Oct 1939 | 22 Apr 1940 | 27 Jul 1940 | Scrapped in Sep 1949 at Charlestown Charlestown, Cornwall Charlestown is a village and port on the south coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom, in the parish of St Austell Bay. It is situated approximately south east of St Austell town centre.... . |
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| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
29 Jul 1940 | 30 Jan 1941 | 13 May 1941 | Sold on 17 May 1947 as mercantile Cloverlock. Resold to People's Republic of China People's Republic of China China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres... as mercantile Kai Feng. |
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| Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
4 Sep 1940 | 15 May 1941 | 1 Nov 1941 | Sold in 1947 as mercantile Alexandra. | ||
| Charles Hill & Sons Ltd. Charles Hill & Sons Charles Hill & Sons was a major shipbuilder based in Bristol, England, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Established in 1845, they specialised mainly in merchant and commercial ships, but also undertook the build of warships and governmental vessels especially during the First and Second World... , Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007... |
3 Nov 1939 | 13 Aug 1940 | 9 Nov 1940 | Sold on 9 Aug 1946. Resold in 1949 as mercantile Leif Welding. Scrapped in 1966 at Grimstad Grimstad is a town and municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It belongs to the geographical region of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Grimstad. Other notable places in Grimstad include Eide, Fevik, Fjære, Landvik, Prestegårdskogen, Reddal, and Roresanden.It is... . |
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| Charles Hill & Sons Ltd. Charles Hill & Sons Charles Hill & Sons was a major shipbuilder based in Bristol, England, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Established in 1845, they specialised mainly in merchant and commercial ships, but also undertook the build of warships and governmental vessels especially during the First and Second World... , Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007... |
17 Jan 1940 | 22 Sep 1940 | 26 Feb 1941 | Sold on 21 Aug 1947 and scrapped on 5 Oct 1947 at Newport Newport Newport is a city and unitary authority area in Wales. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, it is located about east of Cardiff and is the largest urban area within the historic county boundaries of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent... . |
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| A. & J. Inglis Ltd., Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands... |
19 Sep 1939 | 23 Apr 1940 | 17 Aug 1940 | 10 Nov 1943 | Transferred on 10 Nov 1943 to the Royal Hellenic Navy Hellenic Navy The Hellenic Navy is the naval force of Greece, part of the Greek Armed Forces. The modern Greek navy has its roots in the naval forces of various Aegean Islands, which fought in the Greek War of Independence... as Kriezis. Returned to the RN on 1 Jun 1952. Scrapped on 22 Jul 1952 at Sunderland. |
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| Hall, Russell & Co. Hall, Russell & Company Hall, Russell & Company, Limited was a shipbuilder based in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK-History:Brothers James and William Hall, Thomas Russell, a Glasgow engineer, and James Cardno Couper founded the company in 1864 to build steam engines and boilers. In 1867 the company built its first ship, the Kwang... , Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
19 Sep 1940 | 9 Jun 1941 | Transferred on 16 Sep 1941 to the Free French Navy as . Returned to the RN in 1947. Scrapped in 1948 at Troon Troon Troon is a town in South Ayrshire. It is situated on the west coast of Scotland, about eight miles north of Ayr and three miles northwest of Glasgow Prestwick International Airport. Lying across the Firth of Clyde, the Isle of Arran can be seen. Troon is also a port with freight and ferry services... . |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
16 Jan 1941 | 28 May 1941 | 9 Aug 1941 | Sold in Jul 1948. Scrapped in Apr 1949 at Troon Troon Troon is a town in South Ayrshire. It is situated on the west coast of Scotland, about eight miles north of Ayr and three miles northwest of Glasgow Prestwick International Airport. Lying across the Firth of Clyde, the Isle of Arran can be seen. Troon is also a port with freight and ferry services... . |
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| A. & J. Inglis Ltd., Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands... |
26 Oct 1939 | 26 Jun 1940 | 20 Oct 1940 | Badly damaged U-333 by ramming her twice 6 Oct 42. Sold on 22 Jul 1946 as mercantile Annlock. Scrapped in 1952 at Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour... . |
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| J. Lewis & Sons Ltd., Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
30 Nov 1939 | 20 Jun 1940 | 30 Sep 1940 | Sold in 1947. Resold in 1948 as mercantile Southern Briar. Scrapped in 1966 in Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many... . Wrecked at Thorsminde while under tow. |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
28 Feb 1940 | 31 Oct 1940 | 21 Mar 1941 | Scrapped on 28 Oct 1948 at Gelleswick Bay. | ||
| Henry Robb Ltd. Henry Robb Henry Robb, Limited, known colloquially as Robbs, was a British shipbuilding company based in Leith Docks on the east coast of Scotland. Robbs was notable for building small-to-medium sized vessels, particularly tugs and dredgers.-History:... , Leith Leith -South Leith v. North Leith:Up until the late 16th century Leith , comprised two separate towns on either side of the river.... |
31 Oct 1939 | 6 Jun 1940 | 15 Nov 1940 | Scrapped in Feb 1949 at Pembroke Dock Pembroke Dock Pembroke Dock is a town in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales, lying north of Pembroke on the River Cleddau. Originally a small fishing village known as Paterchurch, the town was greatly expanded from 1814 onwards following the construction of a Royal Naval Dockyard... . |
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| J. Lewis & Sons Ltd., Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
8 Dec 1939 | 3 Sep 1940 | 6 Jan 1941 | Formerly . Scrapped on 24 Jun 1947 at Portaferry Portaferry Portaferry is a small town in County Down, Northern Ireland, at the southern end of the Ards Peninsula, near the Narrows at the entrance to Strangford Lough. It had a population of 2,467 people in the 2001 Census. It has an aquarium and is well-known for the annual Galway Hookers Regatta. It hosts... . |
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| Henry Robb Ltd. Henry Robb Henry Robb, Limited, known colloquially as Robbs, was a British shipbuilding company based in Leith Docks on the east coast of Scotland. Robbs was notable for building small-to-medium sized vessels, particularly tugs and dredgers.-History:... , Leith Leith -South Leith v. North Leith:Up until the late 16th century Leith , comprised two separate towns on either side of the river.... |
31 Oct 1939 | 9 Jul 1940 | 17 Mar 1941 | Sank U-379 single-handed by both ramming and depth-charging enemy 8 Aug 42. Sold in May 1947 as mercantile ship. Resold in Jun 1949 to Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... as buoy tender Thorslep. Resold in 1950 as whaling ship. Scrapped in Jun 1969 at Grimstad Grimstad is a town and municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It belongs to the geographical region of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Grimstad. Other notable places in Grimstad include Eide, Fevik, Fjære, Landvik, Prestegårdskogen, Reddal, and Roresanden.It is... . |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
16 Jan 1941 | 11 Jun 1941 | Transferred on 29 Aug 1941 to Royal Norwegian Navy as . Sold to Norway on 10 Aug 1946 as fishery protection service Soroy. | |||
| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
22 Feb 1940 | 18 Jun 1940 | 9 Aug 1940 | 9 Feb 1943 | Mined and sunk on 9 Feb 1943 while escorting a convoy in the Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant... off Derna at 32-48N, 21-10E. Entire crew rescued by . |
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| Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America... |
20 Feb 1940 | 22 Jul 1940 | Transferred on 26 Nov 1940 before completion to the RCN as . Returned to the RN on 17 Jun 1945. Sold on 17 May 1947. Resold in 1950 to the Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... as mercantile Albert W. Vinke. Scrapped in 1965 at Cape Town Cape Town Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality... . |
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| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
29 Mar 1940 | 20 Aug 1940 | Transferred on 15 May 1941 before completion to the RCN as . Shared sinking of U-744 6 Mar 44. Returned to the RN on 12 Jun 1945. Sold in 1948 as mercantile Milliam Kihl. Resold in Oct 1948 as buoy tender, then in 1951 to West Germany West Germany West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990.... as whaling ship. Laid up 1960-61. Last whaling season 1964-65. Scrapped in 1966 at Grimstad Grimstad is a town and municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It belongs to the geographical region of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Grimstad. Other notable places in Grimstad include Eide, Fevik, Fjære, Landvik, Prestegårdskogen, Reddal, and Roresanden.It is... . |
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| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
30 Jan 1940 | 21 Jun 1940 | 26 Aug 1940 | 14 Oct 1941 | Launched as La Dieppoise for the French Navy French Navy The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching... . Completed for the RN after the Fall of France Battle of France In the Second World War, the Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War. The battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb , German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes, to cut off and... . Torpedoed and sunk by U-206 west of Gibraltar Gibraltar Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean. A peninsula with an area of , it has a northern border with Andalusia, Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region... at 36-00N, 06-30W. There were 3 survivors. |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
18 Jun 1940 | 3 Oct 1940 | 19 Nov 1940 | Sold on 22 Jul 1946 as mercantile Freelock. Sunk on 1 Apr 1947. | ||
| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
15 Feb 1941 | 22 Jul 1941 | 1 Nov 1941 | Sold on 19 Mar 1946. Resold in 1947 as mercantile Andria and in 1949 as mercantile V.D. Chidambaram. Scrapped in 1955 in India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world... . |
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| W. Simons & Co., Renfrew Renfrew -Local government:The town of Renfrew gave its name to a number of local government areas used at various times:*Renfrew a town to the west of Glasgow*Renfrewshire, the present unitary local council area in which Renfrew is situatated.... |
20 Sep 1939 | 10 Apr 1940 | 24 May 1940 | 9 Nov 1942 | Rammed and sunk off Oran Oran Oran is a major city on the northwestern Mediterranean coast of Algeria, and the second largest city of the country.It is the capital of the Oran Province . The city has a population of 759,645 , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately 1,500,000, making it the second largest... at 35-49N, 01-05W in collision with . |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
15 Feb 1941 | 24 Jul 1941 | 8 Dec 1941 | Sold in 1947 as a weather ship. Scrapped in 1961. | ||
| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
20 Apr 1940 | 6 Aug 1940 | 20 Sep 1940 | Scrapped on 21 Aug 1947 at Purfleet Purfleet Purfleet is a place in the Thurrock unitary authority in Essex, England. It is situated south of the A13 road on the River Thames and within the easterly bounds of the M25 motorway but just outside the Greater London boundary. It was within the traditional Church of England parish of West Thurrock... . |
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| W. Simons & Co., Renfrew Renfrew -Local government:The town of Renfrew gave its name to a number of local government areas used at various times:*Renfrew a town to the west of Glasgow*Renfrewshire, the present unitary local council area in which Renfrew is situatated.... |
21 Sep 1939 | 23 Apr 1940 | 24 Jun 1940 | Shared sinking of U-306 31 Oct 43. Transferred on 8 Sep 1945 to Royal Danish Navy Royal Danish Navy The Royal Danish Navy is the sea-based branch of the Danish Defence force. The RDN is mainly responsible for maritime defence and maintaining the sovereignty of Danish, Greenlandic and Faroese territorial waters... as . |
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| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
19 Oct 1939 | 24 Jan 1940 | 6 Apr 1940 | 17 Oct 1941 | Torpedoed and sunk on 17 Oct 1941 by U-553 while escorting convoy SC-48 south of Iceland Iceland Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population... at 57-00N, 25-00W. All hands were lost. Shared sinkings of U-26 1 July 40 and U-556 27 June 41. |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
21 Mar 1940 | 2 Jul 1940 | 22 Aug 1940 | Scrapped on 15 Jul 1947 at Purfleet Purfleet Purfleet is a place in the Thurrock unitary authority in Essex, England. It is situated south of the A13 road on the River Thames and within the easterly bounds of the M25 motorway but just outside the Greater London boundary. It was within the traditional Church of England parish of West Thurrock... . |
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| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
4 Jan 1940 | 8 May 1940 | 15 Jul 1940 | 6 Sep 1940 | Rammed and sunk 3 miles (4.8 km) off Altacarry Head at 55-18N, 05-57W in collision with mercantile Marsa. | |
| John Crown & Sons Ltd., Sunderland | 15 Jan 1941 | 24 Sep 1941 | 23 Feb 1942 | Formerly . Sold on 22 May 1947 and scrapped at Grays Grays Grays is the largest town in the borough and unitary authority of Thurrock in Essex and one of the Thurrock's traditional parishes... . |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
14 Nov 1939 | 20 Apr 1940 | 4 Jun 1940 | 3 Apr 1942 | Transferred on 3 Apr 1942 to the USN as . Returned to the RN on 23 Aug 1945. Sold on 22 Jul 1946. Resold in 1951 as mercantile Roskva, in 1956 as mercantile Douglas, and in 1958 as mercantile Seabird. Lost in Dec 1958. | |
| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
22 May 1940 | 17 Sep 1940 | 1 Nov 1940 | Sold on 22 May 1947 and scrapped at Grays Grays Grays is the largest town in the borough and unitary authority of Thurrock in Essex and one of the Thurrock's traditional parishes... . |
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| John Crown & Sons Ltd., Sunderland | 23 Oct 1939 | 5 Jun 1940 | 12 Sep 1940 | 24 Mar 1942 | Transferred on 24 Mar 1942 to the USN as . Returned to the RN on 26 Aug 1945. Sold as mercantile ship. Eventually ended service in People's Liberation Army Navy People's Liberation Army Navy The People's Liberation Army Navy is the naval branch of the People's Liberation Army , the military of the People's Republic of China. Until the early 1990s, the navy performed a subordinate role to the PLA Land Forces. Since then, it has undergone rapid modernisation... as Lin I. |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
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| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
24 Feb 1940 | 6 Jul 1940 | Transferred on 15 May 1941 before completion to the RCN as . Returned to the RN on 27 Jun 1945. Scrapped on 1 Jan 1948 at Llanelly Llanelly Llanelly is the name of both a village and its respective parish in Monmouthshire principal area, within the historic boundaries of Brecknockshire, south-east Wales.- Situation :... . |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
14 Nov 1939 | 6 Apr 1940 | 21 May 1940 | 2 May 1942 | Transferred on 2 May 1942 to the USN as . Returned to the RN on 26 Aug 1945. Sold as mercantile Madonna. Scrapped in 1955 at Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour... . |
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| John Crown & Sons Ltd., Sunderland | 27 Nov 1939 | 19 Aug 1940 | 19 Nov 1940 | 9 Apr 1942 | Bombed and sunk on 9 Apr 1942 by Japanese aircraft east of Ceylon Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the... at 07-21N, 81-57E. |
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| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
26 Oct 1939 | 22 Apr 1940 | 14 Sep 1940 | Sold in 1950 and scrapped in Nov 1950 at Grays Grays Grays is the largest town in the borough and unitary authority of Thurrock in Essex and one of the Thurrock's traditional parishes... . |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
20 Apr 1940 | 19 Aug 1940 | 3 Oct 1940 | 24 Oct 1943 | Shared sinking of U-617 by gunfire after enemy ran aground 12 Sept 43. Transferred on 24 Oct 1943 to Royal Hellenic Navy as Apostolis. Returned to the RN in 1952. | |
| Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
24 Dec 1940 | 23 Sep 1941 | 23 Feb 1942 | Formerly . Shared sinking of U-436 26 May 43. Sold on 1 Jan 1948 and scrapped in Oct 1948 at Portaferry Portaferry Portaferry is a small town in County Down, Northern Ireland, at the southern end of the Ards Peninsula, near the Narrows at the entrance to Strangford Lough. It had a population of 2,467 people in the 2001 Census. It has an aquarium and is well-known for the annual Galway Hookers Regatta. It hosts... . |
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| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
22 Nov 1939 | 4 Sep 1940 | 3 Jan 1941 | Shared sinking of U-401 3 Aug 41. Sold in 1947. Resold in 1948 as mercantile Hydralock. Wrecked on 25 Feb 1957 off Formosa Taiwan Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following... . |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
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| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
23 Dec 1939 | 14 Jan 1941 | 16 May 1941 | Sold on 11 Sep 1948 for scrap. | ||
| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
27 Dec 1939 | 9 Jul 1940 | 21 Oct 1940 | Sold in May 1946. Resold in 1947 as mercantile Lemnos. Resold in 1951 as Olympic Rider. Sunk on 1 Dec 1955. | ||
| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
19 Jul 1940 | 31 Oct 1940 | 30 Dec 1940 | Sold on 31 Jul 1946. Resold in 1947 as mercantile Rubis and in 1954 as mercantile Seislim. Scrapped in 1959 at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands. It is located in the Dutch province of South Holland, on the island of IJsselmonde, and borders with Zwijndrecht, Ridderkerk, and the Noord River. The jurisdiction of the municipality covers an area of 11.99 km² of... . |
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| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
13 Nov 1939 | 21 Mar 1940 | 29 Jul 1940 | Launched and commissioned as La Malouine for the French Navy French Navy The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching... . Seized by and completed for the RN after the Fall of France Battle of France In the Second World War, the Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War. The battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb , German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes, to cut off and... (name not changed). Scrapped on 22 May 1947 at Gelliswick Bay. |
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| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
26 Mar 1940 | 5 Sep 1940 | 4 Jan 1941 | 17 Mar 1942 | Transferred on 17 Mar 1942 to the USN as . Returned to the RN on 22 Aug 1945. Sold on 22 Jul 1946 as mercantile Larkslock. Scrapped in 1953 at Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour... . |
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| Hall, Russell & Co. Hall, Russell & Company Hall, Russell & Company, Limited was a shipbuilder based in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK-History:Brothers James and William Hall, Thomas Russell, a Glasgow engineer, and James Cardno Couper founded the company in 1864 to build steam engines and boilers. In 1867 the company built its first ship, the Kwang... , Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
30 Apr 1940 | 27 Nov 1940 | 16 May 1941 | Sold on 9 Aug 1946. | ||
| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
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| Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
27 Jun 1940 | 15 Feb 1941 | Transferred on 16 Jul 1941 to the Free French Navy as (name not changed). Sank U-609 single-handed 7 Feb 43. Returned to the RN in Apr 1947. Sold on 3 May 1947 to Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... as mercantile ship. Resold in July 1948 as buoy tender Thorgeir. Resold as whaling ship. Scrapped in 1969 at Grimstad Grimstad is a town and municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It belongs to the geographical region of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Grimstad. Other notable places in Grimstad include Eide, Fevik, Fjære, Landvik, Prestegårdskogen, Reddal, and Roresanden.It is... . |
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| Hall, Russell & Co. Hall, Russell & Company Hall, Russell & Company, Limited was a shipbuilder based in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK-History:Brothers James and William Hall, Thomas Russell, a Glasgow engineer, and James Cardno Couper founded the company in 1864 to build steam engines and boilers. In 1867 the company built its first ship, the Kwang... , Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
9 Dec 1940 | 25 Aug 1941 | 25 Nov 1941 | Sold on 4 Oct 1946. Resold in 1947 as mercantile Kallsevni. | ||
| Charles Hill & Sons Ltd. Charles Hill & Sons Charles Hill & Sons was a major shipbuilder based in Bristol, England, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Established in 1845, they specialised mainly in merchant and commercial ships, but also undertook the build of warships and governmental vessels especially during the First and Second World... , Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007... |
26 May 1941 | 17 Jan 1942 | Transferred on 23 May 1942 to the Free French Navy as . Returned to the RN on 31 May 1947. Sold in Jan 1948 as whaling ship Southern Lotus. Lost on 18 Dec 1966 off Denmark Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark... while being towed to Norway for scrapping. |
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| Charles Hill & Sons Ltd. Charles Hill & Sons Charles Hill & Sons was a major shipbuilder based in Bristol, England, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Established in 1845, they specialised mainly in merchant and commercial ships, but also undertook the build of warships and governmental vessels especially during the First and Second World... , Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007... |
16 Jan 1942 | Formerly . Sold in 1947 as mercantile Southern Lotus. Refitted in 1948 as a buoy tender. Refitted in 1950 as a whaling ship. Sold in Dec 1966 for scrapping in Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many... . Grounded and wrecked on 18 Dec 1966 while under tow off Jutland Jutland Jutland , historically also called Cimbria, is the name of the peninsula that juts out in Northern Europe toward the rest of Scandinavia, forming the mainland part of Denmark. It has the North Sea to its west, Kattegat and Skagerrak to its north, the Baltic Sea to its east, and the Danish–German... . |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
14 Nov 1939 | 22 May 1940 | 2 Jul 1940 | 11 Jan 1944 | Shared sinking of U-204 19 Oct 41. Transferred on 11 Jan 1944 to the Yugoslavian Navy as Nada. Renamed in 1948 as Partizanka. Returned to the RN in 1948. Transferred in 1948 to the Egyptian Navy as El Sudan. | |
| Hall, Russell & Co. Hall, Russell & Company Hall, Russell & Company, Limited was a shipbuilder based in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK-History:Brothers James and William Hall, Thomas Russell, a Glasgow engineer, and James Cardno Couper founded the company in 1864 to build steam engines and boilers. In 1867 the company built its first ship, the Kwang... , Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
30 Dec 1939 | 8 Jul 1940 | 20 Nov 1940 | Sold in 1947 as a weather ship. Scrapped on 8 Sep 1961 at Ghent Ghent Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of... . |
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| Hall, Russell & Co. Hall, Russell & Company Hall, Russell & Company, Limited was a shipbuilder based in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK-History:Brothers James and William Hall, Thomas Russell, a Glasgow engineer, and James Cardno Couper founded the company in 1864 to build steam engines and boilers. In 1867 the company built its first ship, the Kwang... , Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
26 Jan 1940 | 4 Sep 1940 | 28 Feb 1941 | 9 Dec 1942 | Torpedoed and sunk on 9 Dec 1942 by the Aviazione Ausiliara per la Marina Regia Aeronautica The Italian Royal Air Force was the name of the air force of the Kingdom of Italy. It was established as a service independent of the Royal Italian Army from 1923 until 1946... while escorting convoy KMS.3Y off Algiers Algiers ' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000... at 36-50N, 03-00E. 40 crew were killed. |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
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| Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America... |
20 Feb 1940 | 3 Jul 1940 | Transferred on 15 May 1941 before completion to the RCN as . Returned to the RN on 31 May 1945. Scrapped on 20 Sep 1949 at Inverkeithing Inverkeithing Inverkeithing is a town and a royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, located on the Firth of Forth. According to population estimates , the town has a population of 5,265. The port town was given burgh status by King David I of Scotland in the 12th century and is situated about 9 miles north from... . |
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| Charles Hill & Sons Ltd. Charles Hill & Sons Charles Hill & Sons was a major shipbuilder based in Bristol, England, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Established in 1845, they specialised mainly in merchant and commercial ships, but also undertook the build of warships and governmental vessels especially during the First and Second World... , Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007... |
12 Aug 1941 | 28 Mar 1942 | 8 Jul 1942 | Sold on 31 Mar 1951 to the Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... as mercantile Gerrit W. Vinkle. |
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| Hall, Russell & Co. Hall, Russell & Company Hall, Russell & Company, Limited was a shipbuilder based in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK-History:Brothers James and William Hall, Thomas Russell, a Glasgow engineer, and James Cardno Couper founded the company in 1864 to build steam engines and boilers. In 1867 the company built its first ship, the Kwang... , Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
15 Jul 1940 | 28 Jan 1941 | 7 May 1941 | Shared sinkings of U-135 15 July 43 and U-1199 21 Apr 45. Sold in 1946. Resold in 1948 as mercantile Alexandrouplis. Sunk on 30 Nov 1948. | ||
| Charles Hill & Sons Ltd. Charles Hill & Sons Charles Hill & Sons was a major shipbuilder based in Bristol, England, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Established in 1845, they specialised mainly in merchant and commercial ships, but also undertook the build of warships and governmental vessels especially during the First and Second World... , Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007... |
22 Apr 1940 | 18 Jan 1941 | Transferred on 11 May 1941 to the Free French Navy as (name not changed). | |||
| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
1 Oct 1940 | 17 Apr 1941 | 31 Jul 1941 | Sold in 1947. Resold in 1948 as mercantile W.R. Strang. Resold in 1948 as buoy tender. Resold as whaling ship. Resold in 1957 as Toshi Maru. Scrapped in Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... in 1965. |
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| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
16 Nov 1940 | 27 May 1941 | Transferred on 29 Sep 1941 to Royal Norwegian Navy as . | |||
| J. Lewis & Sons Ltd., Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
21 Jun 1940 | 28 Jan 1941 | 30 May 1941 | Sold on 2 Sep 1946 to Faroe Islands Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland... as trawler Grunningur. Resold in 1951 as buoy tender, then as whaling ship. Scrapped in 1969 at Grimstad Grimstad is a town and municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It belongs to the geographical region of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Grimstad. Other notable places in Grimstad include Eide, Fevik, Fjære, Landvik, Prestegårdskogen, Reddal, and Roresanden.It is... . |
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| J. Lewis & Sons Ltd., Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
9 Sep 1940 | 29 Mar 1941 | 17 Jul 1941 | Sold in Apr 1946 as mercantile Este. | ||
| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
23 Mar 1940 | 4 Jul 1940 | 26 Sep 1940 | Launched as La Paimpolaise for the French Navy French Navy The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching... . Completed for the RN after the Fall of France Battle of France In the Second World War, the Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War. The battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb , German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes, to cut off and... . Shared sinking of U-556 27 June 41. Sold in 1946. |
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| George Philip & Sons Ltd., Dartmouth Dartmouth, Devon Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is a tourist destination set on the banks of the estuary of the River Dart, which is a long narrow tidal ria that runs inland as far as Totnes... |
28 Nov 1939 | 21 Sep 1940 | 25 Feb 1941 | Sold in 1947 as mercantile Nigelock. Sunk on 10 Mar 1955. | ||
| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
18 Jun 1940 | 15 Oct 1940 | 29 Nov 1940 | 21 Aug 1944 | Sank U-741 single-handed 15 Aug 44. Mined and heavily damaged on 21 Aug 1944 off Courseulles-sur-Mer Courseulles-sur-Mer Courseulles-sur-Mer is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.It is a popular tourist destination not only with locals but also with international visitors who come to tour the Normandy landing beaches... . Beached on Juno Beach Juno Beach Juno or Juno Beach was one of five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during the Second World War. The sector spanned from Saint-Aubin, a village just east of the British Gold sector, to Courseulles, just west of the British Sword sector... and declared a total loss. |
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| A. & J. Inglis Ltd., Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands... |
9 Dec 1940 | 28 Aug 1941 | 28 Dec 1941 | Transferred in 1946 to the Irish Naval Service Irish Naval Service The Naval Service is the navy of Ireland and is one of the three standing branches of the Irish Defence Forces. Its main base is in Haulbowline, County Cork.... as Maev. |
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| A. & J. Inglis Ltd., Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands... |
11 Mar 1941 | 18 Oct 1941 | 5 Mar 1942 | Sold in 1947. Scrapped in Feb 1949 at Troon Troon Troon is a town in South Ayrshire. It is situated on the west coast of Scotland, about eight miles north of Ayr and three miles northwest of Glasgow Prestwick International Airport. Lying across the Firth of Clyde, the Isle of Arran can be seen. Troon is also a port with freight and ferry services... . |
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| George Philip & Sons Ltd., Dartmouth Dartmouth, Devon Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is a tourist destination set on the banks of the estuary of the River Dart, which is a long narrow tidal ria that runs inland as far as Totnes... |
28 Nov 1939 | 18 Jan 1941 | 31 Jul 1941 | Sold in 1946. Resold in 1947 as mercantile Galaxidi and in 1951 as mercantile Rosa Vlassi. | ||
| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
24 Feb 1940 | 4 Jun 1940 | 2 Aug 1940 | 1943 | Transferred in 1943 to the Royal Hellenic Navy as Sakhtouris. Returned to the RN in Sep 1951. Scrapped on 21 Apr 1952. | |
| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
30 Oct 1939 | 24 Feb 1940 | 8 Apr 1940 | 15 Mar 1942 | Shared sinking of U-147 2 June 41. Transferred on 15 Mar 1942 to the USN as . Returned to the RN on 26 Aug 1945. Sold in 1947 as mercantile Perilock. Scrapped in 1953 at Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour... . |
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| Henry Robb Ltd. Henry Robb Henry Robb, Limited, known colloquially as Robbs, was a British shipbuilding company based in Leith Docks on the east coast of Scotland. Robbs was notable for building small-to-medium sized vessels, particularly tugs and dredgers.-History:... , Leith Leith -South Leith v. North Leith:Up until the late 16th century Leith , comprised two separate towns on either side of the river.... |
4 Dec 1939 | 19 Sep 1940 | 13 Jan 1941 | Sold in Jan 1946 to the Republic of China Navy Republic of China Navy The Republic of China Navy is the maritime branch of the Armed forces of the Republic of China . The ROC Navy's primary mission is to defend ROC territories and the sea lanes that surround Taiwan against a blockade, attack, or possible invasion by forces of the People's Republic of China... as Fu Po. Sunk on 19 Mar 1947. |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
21 Mar 1940 | 19 Jul 1940 | 5 Sep 1940 | 12 Aug 1941 | Torpedoed and sunk on 12 Aug 1941 by U-568http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/1057.html while escorting convoy ONS-4 south of Iceland Iceland Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population... at 62-00N, 16-01W. All hands were lost. |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
19 Jul 1940 | 16 Nov 1940 | 9 Jan 1941 | Sold on 6 Feb 1948. Scrapped in Oct 1948 at Portaferry Portaferry Portaferry is a small town in County Down, Northern Ireland, at the southern end of the Ards Peninsula, near the Narrows at the entrance to Strangford Lough. It had a population of 2,467 people in the 2001 Census. It has an aquarium and is well-known for the annual Galway Hookers Regatta. It hosts... . |
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| Henry Robb Ltd. Henry Robb Henry Robb, Limited, known colloquially as Robbs, was a British shipbuilding company based in Leith Docks on the east coast of Scotland. Robbs was notable for building small-to-medium sized vessels, particularly tugs and dredgers.-History:... , Leith Leith -South Leith v. North Leith:Up until the late 16th century Leith , comprised two separate towns on either side of the river.... |
20 May 1941 | 16 Feb 1942 | 2 Jul 1942 | 27 Jun 1944 | Torpedoed and heavily damaged on 27 Jun 1944 by U-988 off Normandy Normandy Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is in France.The continental territory covers 30,627 km² and forms the preponderant part of Normandy and roughly 5% of the territory of France. It is divided for administrative purposes into two régions:... at 49-48N, 00-49W. Declared a total loss and scrapped in 1947 at Llanelly Llanelly Llanelly is the name of both a village and its respective parish in Monmouthshire principal area, within the historic boundaries of Brecknockshire, south-east Wales.- Situation :... . |
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| Henry Robb Ltd. Henry Robb Henry Robb, Limited, known colloquially as Robbs, was a British shipbuilding company based in Leith Docks on the east coast of Scotland. Robbs was notable for building small-to-medium sized vessels, particularly tugs and dredgers.-History:... , Leith Leith -South Leith v. North Leith:Up until the late 16th century Leith , comprised two separate towns on either side of the river.... |
19 Mar 1940 | 30 Nov 1940 | 24 Apr 1941 | 21 Sep 1943 | Torpedoed and sunk on 21 Sep 1943 by U-952 while escorting convoy ON-202 at 57-00N, 31-10W. 1 survivor rescued by but was killed when that ship was torpedoed and sunk by U-666 on 23 Sep 1943. | |
| Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
6 Mar 1941 | 20 Nov 1941 | 12 May 1942 | Sold in 1946 as mercantile Rami. Scrapped in 1956. | ||
| W. Simons & Co., Renfrew Renfrew -Local government:The town of Renfrew gave its name to a number of local government areas used at various times:*Renfrew a town to the west of Glasgow*Renfrewshire, the present unitary local council area in which Renfrew is situatated.... |
28 Feb 1941 | 18 Dec 1941 | Transferred on 16 Jan 1942 to the Royal Norwegian Navy as . Returned to the RN on 13 Mar 1944. Sold on 13 Mar 1946 and scrapped at Gateshead Gateshead Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England and is the main settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. Historically a part of County Durham, it lies on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne and together they form the urban core of Tyneside... . |
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| W. Simons & Co., Renfrew Renfrew -Local government:The town of Renfrew gave its name to a number of local government areas used at various times:*Renfrew a town to the west of Glasgow*Renfrewshire, the present unitary local council area in which Renfrew is situatated.... |
22 Sep 1939 | 8 May 1940 | 15 Jul 1940 | Sold on 9 Aug 1946. Resold in Jun 1949 as buoy tender Mek V. Resold in 1952 as whaling ship Norfinn. Sold in Oct 1965. Scrapped in Jun 1966 in Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many... . |
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| W. Simons & Co., Renfrew Renfrew -Local government:The town of Renfrew gave its name to a number of local government areas used at various times:*Renfrew a town to the west of Glasgow*Renfrewshire, the present unitary local council area in which Renfrew is situatated.... |
23 Sep 1939 | 22 Jun 1940 | 27 Aug 1940 | Sold on 22 Jul 1946. Resold in 1947 as mercantile Marylock. Scrapped in 1953 at Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour... . |
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| W. Simons & Co., Renfrew Renfrew -Local government:The town of Renfrew gave its name to a number of local government areas used at various times:*Renfrew a town to the west of Glasgow*Renfrewshire, the present unitary local council area in which Renfrew is situatated.... |
19 Jul 1940 | 25 Jun 1941 | Transferred on 28 Jul 1941 to the Free French Navy as . Returned to the RN in 1947. Sold in 1947 as buoy tender Southern Lily. Scrapped on 9 Jan 1967 at Bruges Bruges Bruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country.... . |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
22 May 1940 | 2 Sep 1940 | 18 Oct 1940 | Sold on 17 May 1947. | ||
| Charles Hill & Sons Ltd. Charles Hill & Sons Charles Hill & Sons was a major shipbuilder based in Bristol, England, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Established in 1845, they specialised mainly in merchant and commercial ships, but also undertook the build of warships and governmental vessels especially during the First and Second World... , Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007... |
28 Oct 1940 | 26 Jul 1941 | 4 Nov 1941 | Transferred on 4 Oct 1947 to the South African Navy South African Navy The South African Navy is the navy of the Republic of South Africa.-Formation:The South African Navy can trace its official origins back to the SA Naval Service, which was established on 1 April 1922.... as . |
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| W. Simons & Co., Renfrew Renfrew -Local government:The town of Renfrew gave its name to a number of local government areas used at various times:*Renfrew a town to the west of Glasgow*Renfrewshire, the present unitary local council area in which Renfrew is situatated.... |
3 Sep 1940 | 22 Sep 1941 | Transferred on 31 Oct 1941 to the Royal Norwegian Navy as . | |||
| W. Simons & Co., Renfrew Renfrew -Local government:The town of Renfrew gave its name to a number of local government areas used at various times:*Renfrew a town to the west of Glasgow*Renfrewshire, the present unitary local council area in which Renfrew is situatated.... |
26 Sep 1939 | 6 Aug 1940 | 20 Sep 1940 | 24 Dec 1941 | Torpedoed and sunk on 24 Dec 1941 by U-568 west of Alexandria Alexandria Alexandria is the second-largest city of Egypt, with a population of 4.1 million, extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country; it is also the largest city lying directly on the Mediterranean coast. It is Egypt's largest seaport, serving... at 31-46N, 28-00E. All hands were lost plus a number of the crew, servicemen and POW's rescued from the loss of the SS Shuntien torpedoed and sunk by U-559 on 23rd Dec 1941 |
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| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
4 Dec 1940 | 14 Apr 1941 | 30 Jun 1941 | 30 Jan 1943 | Shared sinking of U-567 21 Dec 41. Torpedoed and sunk on 30 Jan 1943 by while escorting convoy TE-14 off Béjaïa Béjaïa Béjaïa, Vgaiet or Bejaya is a Mediterranean port city on the Gulf of Béjaïa in Algeria; it is the capital of Béjaïa Province, Kabylia. Under French rule, it was formerly known under various European names, such as Budschaja in German, Bugia in Italian, and Bougie... at 36-56N, 05-40E. |
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| Charles Hill & Sons Ltd. Charles Hill & Sons Charles Hill & Sons was a major shipbuilder based in Bristol, England, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Established in 1845, they specialised mainly in merchant and commercial ships, but also undertook the build of warships and governmental vessels especially during the First and Second World... , Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007... |
1 Feb 1941 | 24 Oct 1941 | 6 Feb 1942 | Transferred in Aug 1947 to Royal Norwegian Navy as . | ||
| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
27 Sep 1939 | 3 Sep 1940 | 28 Oct 1940 | 19 Dec 1942 | Bombed and sunk on 19 Dec 1942 by the Luftwaffe Luftwaffe Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956.... northwest of Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi is the second largest city in Libya, the main city of the Cyrenaica region , and the former provisional capital of the National Transitional Council. The wider metropolitan area is also a district of Libya... at 32-18N, 19-54E. |
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| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
24 Feb 1940 | 8 Aug 1940 | Transferred on 26 Nov 1940 before completion to the RCN as . Shared sinking of U-536 20 Nov 43. Returned to the RN on 8 Jun 1945. Scrapped in Aug 1947 at Middlesbrough Middlesbrough Middlesbrough is a large town situated on the south bank of the River Tees in north east England, that sits within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire... . |
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| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
4 Feb 1941 | 12 May 1941 | 30 Jul 1941 | Sold on 17 May 1947. Scrapped in Sep 1949 at Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne is a city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Historically a part of Northumberland, it is situated on the north bank of the River Tyne... . |
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| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
19 May 1941 | 22 Aug 1941 | 2 Nov 1941 | Formerly . Shared sinking of U-125 3 July 43 by gunfire. Sold in 1947 as a weather ship. Scrapped in May 1962 at Dublin. | ||
| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
24 Feb 1940 | 10 Aug 1940 | Transferred on 15 May 1941 before completion to the RCN as . | |||
| A. & J. Inglis Ltd., Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands... |
31 May 1940 | 31 Oct 1940 | 27 Feb 1941 | Sold in Aug 1947. Resold in 1948 as mercantile Thessalonika. | ||
| A. & J. Inglis Ltd., Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands... |
11 Jun 1940 | 12 Feb 1941 | 26 May 1941 | Shared sinking of U-660 12 Nov 42 (scuttled). Sold in 1948 to Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... as whaling ship Southern Broom. Scrapped on 9 Jan 1967 at Bruges Bruges Bruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country.... . |
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| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
4 Feb 1941 | 12 May 1941 | 30 Jul 1941 | Shared sinking of U-124 2 Apr 43. Shared sinking of U-634 30 Aug 43. Sold on 17 May 1947. Resold in 1949 as mercantile Silver King and in 1950 as mercantile Martha Vinke. | ||
| J. Lewis & Sons Ltd., Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
4 Nov 1940 | 28 May 1941 | Transferred on 19 Sep 1941 to the Free French Navy as . Returned to the RN in 1947. Sold on 23 Oct 1947 and scrapped in May 1948 at Troon Troon Troon is a town in South Ayrshire. It is situated on the west coast of Scotland, about eight miles north of Ayr and three miles northwest of Glasgow Prestwick International Airport. Lying across the Firth of Clyde, the Isle of Arran can be seen. Troon is also a port with freight and ferry services... . |
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| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
24 May 1940 | 19 Aug 1940 | 25 Jan 1941 | The most successful Royal Navy Flower class. Shared sinking of U-282 29 Oct 43. Sank single-handed 2 U-boats: U-631 17 October 43 and U-638 5 May 43. Scrapped in Aug 1947 at Hayle Hayle Hayle is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated at the mouth of the Hayle River and is approximately seven miles northeast of Penzance... . |
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| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
4 Apr 1941 | 26 Jun 1941 | 8 Sep 1941 | Sold on 29 Jul 1946. Resold in Jun 1949 as buoy tender Star IX. Resold as whaling ship. Scrapped in Apr 1966 at Bruges Bruges Bruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country.... . |
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| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
10 Feb 1941 | 28 Jul 1941 | 26 Dec 1941 | Nov 1943 | Formerly , renamed before completion. Shared sinking of U-82 6 Feb 42. Transferred in Nov 1943 to Royal Hellenic Navy as Tompazis. Returned to the RN in 1952. Scrapped on 20 Mar 1952 in the United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... . |
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| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
30 Apr 1941 | 25 Jul 1941 | 23 Oct 1941 | Sold in 1947 as weather ship Weather Explorer. Resold in 1958 as mercantile Epos. | ||
| Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America... |
20 Feb 1940 | 26 Jun 1940 | Transferred on 31 Oct 1940 before completion to the RCN as . Returned to the RN on 25 Jun 1945. Sold in 1950 as mercantile Olympic Runner. Resold in 1956 as mercantile Otori Maru 10, then in 1959 as mercantile Kyo Maru No. 16. | |||
| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
30 May 1940 | 4 Sep 1940 | 18 Nov 1940 | Sold in May 1947. Resold in 1950 as whaling ship Olympic Conqueror. Seized in Nov 1954 by Peru Peru Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.... . Resold in 1956 to Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... as Otori Maru No. 8. Resold in 1957 as Thorlyn and in Nov 1964 to Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.... . Scrapped in 1965 in West Germany West Germany West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990.... . |
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| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
29 Jun 1940 | 1 Oct 1940 | 19 Dec 1940 | Sold on 17 May 1947. Scrapped on 1 Oct 1951 at Blyth Blyth, Northumberland Blyth is a town and civil parish in southeast Northumberland, England. It lies on the coast, to the south of the River Blyth and is approximately 21 kilometres northeast of Newcastle upon Tyne... . |
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| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
9 Jul 1940 | 17 Oct 1940 | 18 Feb 1941 | 16 Feb 1942 | Transferred on 16 Feb 1942 to the USN as . Returned to the RN on 26 Aug 1945. Sold in 1946 as mercantile Verolock. Sank in 1947. Raised in 1951 and scrapped at Blyth Blyth, Northumberland Blyth is a town and civil parish in southeast Northumberland, England. It lies on the coast, to the south of the River Blyth and is approximately 21 kilometres northeast of Newcastle upon Tyne... . |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
16 Nov 1940 | 12 Mar 1941 | 9 Jun 1941 | 20 Feb 1945 | Formerly . Torpedoed and sunk on 20 Feb 1945 by U-1276 southeast of Dungarvan at 51-47N, 07-06W. | |
| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
15 Mar 1941 | 27 May 1941 | 11 Aug 1941 | Shared sinking of U-252 14 Apr 42. Sank U-414 single-handed 25 May 43. Sold in Aug 1945. Resold in 1948 as mercantile Patrai, in 1951 as mercantile Olympic Hunter and in 1956 as mercantile Otori Maru No. 18. | ||
| W. Simons & Co., Renfrew Renfrew -Local government:The town of Renfrew gave its name to a number of local government areas used at various times:*Renfrew a town to the west of Glasgow*Renfrewshire, the present unitary local council area in which Renfrew is situatated.... |
21 Mar 1940 | 30 Dec 1940 | 3 Feb 1941 | 10 Feb 1946 | Shared sinking of U-651 29 June 41. Sank U-641 single-handed 25 May 43. Sold on 17 May 1947 as mercantile La Aguerra. Resold in 1949 to Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula... as mercantile La Guera then in 1958 as mercantile Claudio Sabadell. Scrapped in Oct 1970 at Bilbao Bilbao Bilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain... |
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| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
23 Jul 1940 | 14 Nov 1940 | 7 Mar 1941 | Shared sinking of U-523 25 Aug 43. Sold on 29 Jul 1946. Resold in 1949 as buoy tender Asbjrrn Larsen and in 1950 as whaling ship. Scrapped in Oct 1966 at Grimstad Grimstad is a town and municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It belongs to the geographical region of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Grimstad. Other notable places in Grimstad include Eide, Fevik, Fjære, Landvik, Prestegårdskogen, Reddal, and Roresanden.It is... . |
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| Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec. The facility has undergone restructuring and is currently operating as Davie Yards Incorporated.-History:... , Lauzon Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989... |
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| W. Simons & Co., Renfrew Renfrew -Local government:The town of Renfrew gave its name to a number of local government areas used at various times:*Renfrew a town to the west of Glasgow*Renfrewshire, the present unitary local council area in which Renfrew is situatated.... |
29 Apr 1940 | 28 Feb 1941 | 7 Apr 1941 | Sold in 1947 as mercantile Southern Lupin. Resold in 1948 as buoy tender and later as whaling ship. Scrapped in 1959 at Odense Odense The city of Odense is the third largest city in Denmark.Odense City has a population of 167,615 and is the main city of the island of Funen... . |
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| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
20 Aug 1940 | 28 Nov 1940 | 30 Mar 1941 | 23 Aug 1941 | Torpedoed and sunk on 23 Aug 1941 by U-564 while escorting convoy OG-71 west of Portugal Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the... at 40-25N, 10-40W. |
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South African Navy
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| Charles Hill & Sons Ltd. Charles Hill & Sons Charles Hill & Sons was a major shipbuilder based in Bristol, England, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Established in 1845, they specialised mainly in merchant and commercial ships, but also undertook the build of warships and governmental vessels especially during the First and Second World... , Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007... |
28 Oct 1940 | 26 Jul 1941 | 4 Oct 1947 | Formerly . Transferred on 4 Oct 1947 to the South African Navy South African Navy The South African Navy is the navy of the Republic of South Africa.-Formation:The South African Navy can trace its official origins back to the SA Naval Service, which was established on 1 April 1922.... . Converted to a survey vessel. Scrapped in 1967. |
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Royal Netherlands Navy
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| Grangemouth Dry Dock Co., Grangemouth Grangemouth Grangemouth is a town and former burgh in the council area of Falkirk, Scotland. The town lies in the Forth Valley, on the banks of the Firth of Forth, east of Falkirk, west of Bo'ness and south-east of Stirling. Grangemouth had a resident population of 17,906 according to the 2001... |
31 Oct 1939 | 8 Jul 1940 | 26 Mar 1943 | 4 Oct 1944 | Formerly . Transferred on 26 Mar 1943 to the Royal Netherlands Navy Royal Netherlands Navy The Koninklijke Marine is the navy of the Netherlands. In the mid-17th century the Dutch Navy was the most powerful navy in the world and it played an active role in the wars of the Dutch Republic and later those of the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands... . Returned to the RN on 4 Oct 1944. |
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Royal Norwegian Navy
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| Ailsa Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. Ailsa Shipbuilding Company -History:The company was founded in 1885 by the 3rd Marquess of Ailsa.In 1902 the Ailsa yard fitted out the polar exploration ship Scotia for the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04... , Troon Troon Troon is a town in South Ayrshire. It is situated on the west coast of Scotland, about eight miles north of Ayr and three miles northwest of Glasgow Prestwick International Airport. Lying across the Firth of Clyde, the Isle of Arran can be seen. Troon is also a port with freight and ferry services... |
21 Dec 1939 | 26 May 1941 | 1 Oct 1941 | 1956 | Formerly . Transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Royal Norwegian Navy The Royal Norwegian Navy is the branch of the Norwegian Defence Force responsible for naval operations. , the RNoN consists of approximately 3,700 personnel and 70 vessels, including 5 heavy frigates, 6 submarines, 14 patrol boats, 4 minesweepers, 4 minehunters, 1 mine detection vessel, 4 support... on 1 Oct 1941. Purchased by Norway in 1946 as a fishery protection ship. Reclassified in 1950 as a frigate Frigate A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"... with pennant number F307. Sold in 1956 as whaling ship Colin Frye. Resold in 1957 as Toshi Maru No.2. Scrapped in 1970 in Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... . |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
17 Dec 1940 | 10 Apr 1941 | 20 Dec 1944 | Nov 1957 | Formerly . Transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Royal Norwegian Navy The Royal Norwegian Navy is the branch of the Norwegian Defence Force responsible for naval operations. , the RNoN consists of approximately 3,700 personnel and 70 vessels, including 5 heavy frigates, 6 submarines, 14 patrol boats, 4 minesweepers, 4 minehunters, 1 mine detection vessel, 4 support... on 20 Dec 1944. Purchased by Norway in 1946 as fishery protection ship . Sold in Nov 1957 as whaling ship Thoris. Scrapped in Jun 1969. |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
16 Jan 1941 | 11 Jun 1941 | 29 Aug 1941 | Aug 1956 | Formerly . Transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Royal Norwegian Navy The Royal Norwegian Navy is the branch of the Norwegian Defence Force responsible for naval operations. , the RNoN consists of approximately 3,700 personnel and 70 vessels, including 5 heavy frigates, 6 submarines, 14 patrol boats, 4 minesweepers, 4 minehunters, 1 mine detection vessel, 4 support... on 29 Aug 1941. Purchased by Norway in 1946 as fishery protection ship . Sold in Aug 1956 as whaling ship Thorglimt. Scrapped in Jun 1969 at Grimstad Grimstad is a town and municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It belongs to the geographical region of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Grimstad. Other notable places in Grimstad include Eide, Fevik, Fjære, Landvik, Prestegårdskogen, Reddal, and Roresanden.It is... . |
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| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
16 Nov 1940 | 27 May 1941 | 29 Sep 1941 | 18 Nov 1942 | Formerly . Transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Royal Norwegian Navy The Royal Norwegian Navy is the branch of the Norwegian Defence Force responsible for naval operations. , the RNoN consists of approximately 3,700 personnel and 70 vessels, including 5 heavy frigates, 6 submarines, 14 patrol boats, 4 minesweepers, 4 minehunters, 1 mine detection vessel, 4 support... on 29 Sep 1941. Torpedoed and sunk by U-262 on 18 Nov 1942 at 53-37N, 38-15W. 48 crew killed, 23 survivors were rescued by . |
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| W. Simons & Co., Renfrew Renfrew -Local government:The town of Renfrew gave its name to a number of local government areas used at various times:*Renfrew a town to the west of Glasgow*Renfrewshire, the present unitary local council area in which Renfrew is situatated.... |
28 Feb 1941 | 18 Dec 1941 | 16 Jan 1942 | 13 Mar 1944 | Formerly . Transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Royal Norwegian Navy The Royal Norwegian Navy is the branch of the Norwegian Defence Force responsible for naval operations. , the RNoN consists of approximately 3,700 personnel and 70 vessels, including 5 heavy frigates, 6 submarines, 14 patrol boats, 4 minesweepers, 4 minehunters, 1 mine detection vessel, 4 support... on 16 Jan 1942. Returned to the RN on 13 Mar 1944. |
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| W. Simons & Co., Renfrew Renfrew -Local government:The town of Renfrew gave its name to a number of local government areas used at various times:*Renfrew a town to the west of Glasgow*Renfrewshire, the present unitary local council area in which Renfrew is situatated.... |
3 Sep 1940 | 22 Sep 1941 | 31 Oct 1941 | 26 Oct 1944 | Formerly . Transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Royal Norwegian Navy The Royal Norwegian Navy is the branch of the Norwegian Defence Force responsible for naval operations. , the RNoN consists of approximately 3,700 personnel and 70 vessels, including 5 heavy frigates, 6 submarines, 14 patrol boats, 4 minesweepers, 4 minehunters, 1 mine detection vessel, 4 support... on 26 Oct 1941 and commissioned on 31 Oct 1941. Rammed and sunk on 26 Oct 1944 by at 45-50N, 40-15W. 3 crew were killed. |
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Royal Hellenic Navy
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| Apostolis HMS Hyacinth (K84) HMS Hyacinth was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War and achieved three victories over enemy submarines in a highly successful career. Only managed to repeat such success among her sister ships... |
Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
20 Apr 1940 | 19 Aug 1940 | 24 Oct 1943 | 1952 | Formerly . Transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy Hellenic Navy The Hellenic Navy is the naval force of Greece, part of the Greek Armed Forces. The modern Greek navy has its roots in the naval forces of various Aegean Islands, which fought in the Greek War of Independence... on 24 Oct 1943. Returned to the RN in 1952. |
| Kriezis | A. & J. Inglis Ltd., Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands... |
19 Sep 1939 | 23 Apr 1940 | 10 Nov 1943 | 1 Jun 1952 | Formerly . Transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy Hellenic Navy The Hellenic Navy is the naval force of Greece, part of the Greek Armed Forces. The modern Greek navy has its roots in the naval forces of various Aegean Islands, which fought in the Greek War of Independence... on 10 Nov 1943. Returned to the RN on 1 Jun 1952. |
| Sachtouris HMS Peony (K40) HMS Peony was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy as Sachtouris, serving throughout World War II and the Greek Civil War. She was returned to the Royal Navy in 1951 and scrapped in April 1952.-Royal Navy:Throughout her career with the Royal... |
Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
24 Feb 1940 | 4 Jun 1940 | 1943 | 1951 | Formerly . Transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy Hellenic Navy The Hellenic Navy is the naval force of Greece, part of the Greek Armed Forces. The modern Greek navy has its roots in the naval forces of various Aegean Islands, which fought in the Greek War of Independence... in 1943. Returned to the RN in Sep 1951. |
| Tombazis | Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
10 Feb 1941 | 28 Jul 1941 | Nov 1943 | Formerly . Transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy Hellenic Navy The Hellenic Navy is the naval force of Greece, part of the Greek Armed Forces. The modern Greek navy has its roots in the naval forces of various Aegean Islands, which fought in the Greek War of Independence... in Nov 1943. Returned to the RN in 1952. |
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United States Navy
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
14 Nov 1939 | 20 Apr 1940 | 3 Apr 1942 | 22 Aug 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the United States Navy United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... on 3 Apr 1942. Returned to the RN on 23 Aug 1945. |
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| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
26 Mar 1940 | 5 Sep 1940 | 17 Mar 1942 | 22 Aug 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the United States Navy United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... on 17 Mar 1942. Returned to the RN on 22 Aug 1945. |
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| Cook, Welton & Gemmell Cook, Welton & Gemmell Cook, Welton and Gemmell was a shipbuilders based in Hull and Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire. England.The firm was founded in 1883 on South Bridge Road, Hull, on the Humber bank. The founding partners were William James Cook, Charles Keen Welton and William Gemmell... , Beverley Beverley Beverley is a market town, civil parish and the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, located between the River Hull and the Westwood. The town is noted for Beverley Minster and architecturally-significant religious buildings along New Walk and other areas, as well as the Beverley... |
13 Mar 1940 | 18 Sep 1940 | 10 Mar 1942 | 22 Aug 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the United States Navy United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... on 10 Mar 1942. Returned to the RN on 22 Aug 1945. |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
30 Oct 1939 | 21 Mar 1940 | 12 Mar 1942 | 23 Aug 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the United States Navy United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... on 12 Mar 1942. Returned to the RN on 23 Aug 1945. |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
30 Oct 1939 | 24 Feb 1940 | 15 Mar 1942 | 20 Aug 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the United States Navy United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... on 15 Mar 1942. Returned to the RN on 26 Aug 1945. |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
30 Oct 1939 | 14 Feb 1940 | 30 Apr 1942 | 20 Aug 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the United States Navy United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... on 30 Apr 1942. Returned to the RN on 26 Aug 1945. |
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| Harland & Wolff Ltd. Harland and Wolff Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.... , Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
14 Nov 1939 | 6 Apr 1940 | 2 May 1942 | 20 Aug 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the United States Navy United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... on 2 May 1942. Returned to the RN on 26 Aug 1945. |
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| John Crown & Sons Ltd., Sunderland City of Sunderland The City of Sunderland is a local government district of Tyne and Wear, in North East England, with the status of a city and metropolitan borough... |
23 Oct 1939 | 5 Jun 1940 | 24 Mar 1942 | 20 Aug 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the United States Navy United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... on 24 Mar 1942. Returned to the RN on 26 Aug 1945. |
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| Smiths Dock Co. Smiths Dock Company Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.-History:The company was originally established by Thomas Smith who bought William Rowe's shipyard at St. Peter's in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1810 and traded as William Smith & Co. The company... , South Bank-on-Tees South Bank, Middlesbrough South Bank is a small town which forms part of the Middlesbrough urban area that lies 2.3 miles from Middlesbrough centre, in North East England. As the name suggests, it lies on the south bank of the River Tees. Although it is part of the Middlesbrough conurbation, it is a ward of Redcar and... |
9 Jul 1940 | 17 Oct 1940 | 21 Mar 1942 | 20 Aug 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the United States Navy United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... on 16 Feb 1942. Returned to the RN on 26 Aug 1945. |
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| Grangemouth Dry Dock Co., Grangemouth Grangemouth Grangemouth is a town and former burgh in the council area of Falkirk, Scotland. The town lies in the Forth Valley, on the banks of the Firth of Forth, east of Falkirk, west of Bo'ness and south-east of Stirling. Grangemouth had a resident population of 17,906 according to the 2001... |
31 Oct 1939 | 8 Jul 1940 | 11 Jun 1942 | 22 Aug 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the United States Navy United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... on 4 Mar 1942. Returned to the RN on 26 Aug 1945. |
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Royal Canadian Navy
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| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
20 July 1943 | 22 November 1943 | 16 June 1944 | 8 July 1945 | Scrapped in Mar 1949 at New Orleans. | |
| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City | 15 August 1942 | 4 April 1943 | 14 October 1943 | 17 July 1945 | Scrapped in Oct 1952 in Canada. | |
| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City | 8 Nov 1943 | 11 May 1944 | 25 Sep 1944 | 12 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1946 to the "Mossad Le'Aliya bet" in Quebec (The Institute for Immigration B) as a passenger vessel Yoashia Wegwood. Transferred to Israel in 1948 as corvette HaShomer. | |
| Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Kingston Kingston, Ontario Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post... |
21 Jan 1944 | 17 Jun 1944 | 19 Oct 1944 | 5 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1947 to the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries... as Juan Bautista Cambiaso. |
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| HMCS Charlottetown | Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Kingston Kingston, Ontario Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post... |
7 Jun 1941 | 10 Sep 1941 | 13 Dec 1941 | 11 Sep 1942 | Torpedoed and sunk on 11 Sep 1942 by U-517 while escorting convoy SQ-30 in the Saint Lawrence River Saint Lawrence River The Saint Lawrence is a large river flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. It is the primary drainage conveyor of the Great Lakes Basin... north of Cap-Chat Cap-Chat, Quebec Cap-Chat is a town in the Canadian province of Québec, in the Regional County Municipality of Haute-Gaspésie, and in the administrative region of Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine. Its geographical co-ordinates are lat. 49°6′ N; long. 66°41′ W. Cap-Chat is found 16 km west of... at 49-10N, 66-50W. 9 crew killed. |
| Midland Shipyards Ltd., Midland Midland, Ontario Midland is a town located on Georgian Bay in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.Situated at the southern end of Georgian Bay's 30,000 Islands, Midland is the economic centre of the region, with a 125-bed hospital and a local airport. It is the main town of the southern Georgian Bay area... |
25 Nov 1942 | 14 Jul 1943 | 11 May 1944 | 15 Jun 1945 | Sold in 1947 as mercantile Camco. Resold in 1956 to Panama Panama Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The... as mercantile Puerto del Sol. Burned and sunk in 1971. |
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| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
10 Dec 1943 | 30 Aug 1944 | 18 Nov 1944 | 14 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1945 as mercantile Camco II. Resold in 1948 as Hartcourt Kent. Wrecked in 1949. | |
| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
5 Feb 1943 | 30 Aug 1943 | 1 Dec 1943 | 9 Jul 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the RCN before completion. | |
| Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Kingston Kingston, Ontario Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post... |
19 Feb 1943 | 2 Jun 1943 | 26 Oct 1943 | 22 Jul 1945 | Sold in Oct 1945 to United Ship Corporation. | |
| Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
30 Nov 1942 | 19 Jun 1943 | 10 Nov 1943 | 5 Jul 1945 | Formerly . Scrapped in Oct 1952 in Canada. | |
| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood | 29 May 1943 | 20 Dec 1943 | 9 May 1944 | 27 Jun 1945 | Sold in 1945 to Panama as mercantile Guelph (name not changed). Resold in 1956 as Burfin. | |
| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City | 20 July 1943 | 16 Nov 1943 | 14 June 1944 | 10 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1950 to Cambodia Cambodia Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia... as Campuchea. |
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| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City | 24 Nov 1943 | 9 Jun 1944 | 26 Oct 1944 | 10 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1947 to the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries... and renamed Cristobal Colon. Wrecked by Hurricane David Hurricane David Hurricane David was the fourth named tropical cyclone, second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 1979 Atlantic hurricane season. A Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, David was among the deadliest hurricanes in the latter half of the 20th century, killing... on 30 August 1979. |
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| Midland Shipyards Ltd., Midland Midland, Ontario Midland is a town located on Georgian Bay in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.Situated at the southern end of Georgian Bay's 30,000 Islands, Midland is the economic centre of the region, with a 125-bed hospital and a local airport. It is the main town of the southern Georgian Bay area... |
30 Sep 1942 | 4 Jun 1943 | 15 Nov 1943 | 18 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1946 as mercantile North Shore. | |
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| A. & J. Inglis Ltd., Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands... |
27 Feb 1943 | 28 Sep 1943 | 5 Jan 1944 | 17 Jun 1945 | Formerly . Sold in 1947 as mercantile Rexton Kent II. | |
| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
11 Jan 1943 | 13 Jul 1943 | 13 Dec 1943 | 25 Jun 1945 | Sold in 1947 to the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries... and renamed Juan Alejandro Acosta. Wrecked by Hurricane David Hurricane David Hurricane David was the fourth named tropical cyclone, second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 1979 Atlantic hurricane season. A Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, David was among the deadliest hurricanes in the latter half of the 20th century, killing... on 30 August 1979. |
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| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City | 23 Nov 1943 | 24 Jun 1944 | 10 Nov 1944 | 11 Jul 1945 | Formerly . | |
| John Crown & Sons Ltd., Sunderland City of Sunderland The City of Sunderland is a local government district of Tyne and Wear, in North East England, with the status of a city and metropolitan borough... |
22 Feb 1943 | 11 Oct 1943 | 8 Feb 1944 | 18 Jul 1945 | Formerly . Sold in 1950 to Honduras Honduras Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize... as Olympic Victor. Resold in 1956 to Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... as Otori Maru No. 12 and in 1962 as Kyo Maru No. 25. |
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| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City | 14 Jan 1943 | 31 Jul 1943 | 22 Dec 1943 | 25 Jun 1945 | Sold in 1946 to Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century.... as mercantile Balboa under Panamanian flag. Resold to the "Mossad Le'Aliya bet" in Quebec (The Institute for Immigration B) while still in Quebec as a passenger vessel Hagana. Transferred to Israel in 1948 as corvette Hagana. |
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| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
29 Sep 1942 | 27 Apr 1943 | 25 Oct 1943 | 5 Jun 1945 | Sold in 1946 as mercantile Kent County II. Resold in 1950 as Galloway Kent and in 1951 as Bedford II. | |
| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
11 Nov 1942 | 15 Jun 1943 | 17 Nov 1943 | 19 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1945 to Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe.... as Cadio. |
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| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
11 Jun 1943 | 13 Nov 1943 | 30 Aug 1944 | 10 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1950 to Honduras Honduras Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize... as mercantile Olympic Champion. Resold in 1956 to Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... as Otori Maru No. 15 and in 1961 as Kyo Maru No. 22. |
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| Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Kingston Kingston, Ontario Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post... |
14 Sep 1943 | 15 Jan 1944 | 1 Jun 1944 | 19 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1947 to the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries... as Gerardo Jansen. |
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| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City | 5 Jan 1943 | 2 Jul 1943 | 21 Nov 1943 | 2 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1947 to the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries... as Juan Bautista Maggiolo. |
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| Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Kingston Kingston, Ontario Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post... |
21 Jan 1944 | 19 Aug 1944 | 28 Nov 1944 | 8 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1950 to Honduras Honduras Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize... as mercantile Olympic Lightning. Resold in 1956 to Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... as Otori Maru No. 16 and in 1961 as Kyo Maru No. 23. |
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| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
8 Jul 1943 | 6 Nov 1943 | 27 May 1944 | 20 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1946 to Panama Panama Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The... as Chrysi Hondroulis. Resold in 1955 to Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe.... as Loula. |
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| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
16 Nov 1943 | 27 Apr 1944 | 29 Sep 1944 | 1 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1946 to Chile Chile Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far... as Casma. |
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| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
18 Nov 1943 | 15 Jun 1944 | 20 Nov 1944 | 12 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1946 to Chile Chile Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far... as Chipana. |
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| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
25 Sep 1943 | 15 May 1944 | 13 Nov 1944 | 15 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1946 to Chile Chile Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far... as Papudo. |
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| Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Kingston Kingston, Ontario Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post... |
19 Feb 1943 | 1 Sep 1943 | 1 Dec 1943 | 22 Feb 1945 | Torpedoed and sunk on 22 Feb 1945 by U-1004 off Falmouth Falmouth, Cornwall Falmouth is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,635.Falmouth is the terminus of the A39, which begins some 200 miles away in Bath, Somerset.... at 50-06N, 04-50W. 6 crew were lost. |
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| Midland Shipyards Ltd., Midland Midland, Ontario Midland is a town located on Georgian Bay in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.Situated at the southern end of Georgian Bay's 30,000 Islands, Midland is the economic centre of the region, with a 125-bed hospital and a local airport. It is the main town of the southern Georgian Bay area... |
23 Jul 1943 | 25 Jan 1944 | 6 Oct 1944 | 9 Jul 1945 | Sold in 1945 as mercantile West York (name not changed). Resold in 1960 as Federal Express. Rammed and sunk in 1960 in the Saint Lawrence River Saint Lawrence River The Saint Lawrence is a large river flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. It is the primary drainage conveyor of the Great Lakes Basin... near Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America... . Raised and scrapped. |
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| Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy, Quebec Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006... |
1 Apr 1943 | 18 Sep 1943 | 6 Jun 1944 | 16 Jul 1945 | Acquired by the Portuguese Navy from the USA and renamed NRP Bengo on the 29 April 1948 and transferred to the Mozambique Pilots on the 1 October 1948 where she was named just Bengo. | |
Royal Indian Navy
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| John Crown & Sons Ltd., Sunderland City of Sunderland The City of Sunderland is a local government district of Tyne and Wear, in North East England, with the status of a city and metropolitan borough... |
26 Nov 1942 | 21 Jun 1943 | 19 Feb 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the RIN on 19 Feb 1945. Returned to the RN in 1947. Scrapped. | ||
| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
2 Nov 1942 | 31 May 1943 | 15 May 1945 | 17 May 1946 | Formerly . Transferred to the RIN on 15 May 1945. Returned to the RN on 17 May 1946. | |
| Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
26 Sept 1942 | 22 Apr 1943 | 24 Aug 1945 | 17 May 1946 | Formerly . Transferred to the RIN on 24 Aug 1945. Returned to the RN on 17 May 1946. | |
Royal New Zealand Navy
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| George Brown & Co., Greenock Greenock Greenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in United Kingdom, and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland... |
26 Feb 1943 | 28 Oct 1943 | 16 Mar 1944 | 1948 | Formerly . Transferred to the RNZN on 16 Mar 1944. Returned to the RN in 1948. | |
| George Brown & Co., Greenock Greenock Greenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in United Kingdom, and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland... |
3 May 1943 | 26 Jan 1944 | 5 Jul 1944 | 1948 | Formerly . Transferred to the RNZN on 5 Jul 1944. Returned to the RN in 1948. | |
Royal Navy
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| George Brown & Co., Greenock Greenock Greenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in United Kingdom, and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland... |
26 Feb 1943 | 28 Oct 1943 | Transferred on 16 Mar 1944 to the Royal New Zealand Navy Royal New Zealand Navy The Royal New Zealand Navy is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force... as . Returned to the RN in 1948. Scrapped in Aug 1951 at Grays Grays Grays is the largest town in the borough and unitary authority of Thurrock in Essex and one of the Thurrock's traditional parishes... . |
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| George Brown & Co., Greenock Greenock Greenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in United Kingdom, and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland... |
3 May 1943 | 26 Jan 1944 | Transferred on 5 Jul 1944 to the Royal New Zealand Navy Royal New Zealand Navy The Royal New Zealand Navy is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force... as . Returned to the RN in 1948. Scrapped in Jun 1951 at Dunston Dunston, Tyne and Wear Dunston was originally an independent village on the south bank of the River Tyne. It has now been absorbed into the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in the English county of Tyne and Wear... . |
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| Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
26 Sept 1942 | 22 Apr 1943 | Transferred on 24 Aug 1945 to India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world... as . Returned to the RN on 17 May 1946. Transferred in 1947 to Thailand Thailand Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the... as Prasae. Grounded on 7 Jan 1951 along east coast of Korea Korea Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the... and scuttled on 13 Jan 1951. |
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| Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... |
30 Nov 1942 | 19 Jun 1943 | Transferred on 10 Nov 1943 to the RCN as . | |||
| John Crown & Sons Ltd., Sunderland City of Sunderland The City of Sunderland is a local government district of Tyne and Wear, in North East England, with the status of a city and metropolitan borough... |
26 Nov 1942 | 21 Jun 1943 | 8 Nov 1943 | 19 Feb 1945 | Transferred on 19 Feb 1944 to India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world... as . Returned to the RN in 1947 and scrapped. |
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| John Crown & Sons Ltd., Sunderland City of Sunderland The City of Sunderland is a local government district of Tyne and Wear, in North East England, with the status of a city and metropolitan borough... |
22 Feb 1943 | 11 Oct 1943 | Transferred on 8 Feb 1944 to the RCN as . | |||
| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
2 Nov 1942 | 31 May 1943 | Transferred on 15 May 1945 to India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world... as . Returned to the RN on 17 May 1946. Transferred on 15 May 1947 to Thailand Thailand Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the... . |
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| A. & J. Inglis Ltd., Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands... |
27 Feb 1943 | 28 Sep 1943 | Transferred on 5 Jan 1944 to the RCN as . | |||
| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
5 Feb 1943 | 30 Aug 1943 | Transferred on 1 Dec 1943 to the RCN as . | |||
| Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. Ferguson Shipbuilders Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard located in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde in Scotland. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde, and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river - the company's mainstay has long been Roll-on/roll-off ferries.-History:The... , Paisley Paisley Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area... |
6 Apr 1943 | 16 Nov 1943 | Transferred in 1946 to India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world... as . |
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| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
6 Jan 1942 | 28 Jul 1942 | Transferred on 22 Nov 1942 to the United States Navy United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... as . |
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| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
6 Jan 1942 | 4 Sep 1942 | Transferred on 10 Dec 1942 to the USN as . | |||
| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
31 Oct 1942 | 31 May 1943 | Formerly . Transferred to the RN on 31 May 1943 under the lend-lease program Lend-Lease Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in... . Returned to the USN on 20 Jun 1946. |
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| Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Kingston Kingston, Ontario Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post... |
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| Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Kingston Kingston, Ontario Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post... |
28 Sep 1942 | Formerly . Transferred to the RN under the lend-lease program Lend-Lease Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in... . Returned to the USN on 5 Jan 1946. |
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| Midland Shipyards Ltd., Midland Midland, Ontario Midland is a town located on Georgian Bay in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.Situated at the southern end of Georgian Bay's 30,000 Islands, Midland is the economic centre of the region, with a 125-bed hospital and a local airport. It is the main town of the southern Georgian Bay area... |
18 Nov 1942 | 22 Jun 1943 | Formerly . Transferred to the RN under the lend-lease program Lend-Lease Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in... . Returned to the USN on 27 Jul 1946. |
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| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
Nov 1941 | 22 Aug 1942 | Transferred on 6 Apr 1943 to the USN as . | |||
| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
Nov 1941 | 5 Aug 1942 | Transferred on 31 Mar 1943 to the USN as . | |||
| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
28 Nov 1941 | 15 Jul 1942 | Transferred on 22 Dec 1942 to the USN as . | |||
| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
22 Jul 1942 | 29 Nov 1942 | Transferred on 23 Jul 1943 to the USN as . | |||
| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
14 Aug 1942 | 4 Dec 1942 | Transferred on 16 Aug 1943 to the USN as . | |||
| Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Kingston Kingston, Ontario Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post... |
11 Feb 1943 | 28 Jul 1943 | 20 Mar 1946 | Formerly . Transferred to the RN under the lend-lease program Lend-Lease Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in... . Returned to the USN on 20 Mar 1946. |
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| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
24 Dec 1942 | 21 Jun 1943 | Formerly . Transferred to the RN under the lend-lease program Lend-Lease Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in... . Returned to the USN on 5 Jan 1946. |
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| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
10 Apr 1943 | 20 Sep 1943 | Formerly . Transferred to the RN under the lend-lease program Lend-Lease Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in... . Returned to the USN on 21 Jun 1946. |
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| Midland Shipyards Ltd., Midland Midland, Ontario Midland is a town located on Georgian Bay in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.Situated at the southern end of Georgian Bay's 30,000 Islands, Midland is the economic centre of the region, with a 125-bed hospital and a local airport. It is the main town of the southern Georgian Bay area... |
24 Mar 1943 | Formerly . Transferred to the RN under the lend-lease program Lend-Lease Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in... . Returned to the USN on 11 Jun 1946. |
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United States Navy
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| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
6 Jan 1942 | 28 Jul 1942 | 22 Nov 1942 | 6 Sep 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the USN on 22 Nov 1942. Sold on 6 Feb 1946. | |
| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
6 Jan 1942 | 4 Sep 1942 | 10 Dec 1942 | 4 Oct 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the USN on 10 Dec 1942. Sold on 22 Sep 1945 to Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... as mercantile Rio Marina. |
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| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
31 Oct 1942 | Transferred on 31 May 1943 to the RN as . Returned to the USN on 20 Jun 1946. | ||||
| Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Kingston Kingston, Ontario Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post... |
15 Jun 1942 | 6 Dec 1942 | 9 Oct 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the USN on 6 Dec 1942. Sold on 18 Oct 1946. | ||
| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
31 Oct 1942 | Transferred to the RN as . Returned to the USN on 20 Jun 1946. | ||||
| Midland Shipyards Ltd., Midland Midland, Ontario Midland is a town located on Georgian Bay in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.Situated at the southern end of Georgian Bay's 30,000 Islands, Midland is the economic centre of the region, with a 125-bed hospital and a local airport. It is the main town of the southern Georgian Bay area... |
18 Nov 1942 | Transferred to the RN as . Returned to the USN on 27 Jul 1946. | ||||
| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
Nov 1941 | 22 Aug 1942 | 6 Apr 1943 | 3 Oct 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the USN on 6 Apr 1943. Sold in 1949 to Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... as mercantile Porto Azzurro. Scrapped in 1973 at La Spezia La Spezia La Spezia , at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the Liguria region of northern Italy, is the capital city of the province of La Spezia. Located between Genoa and Pisa on the Ligurian Sea, it is one of the main Italian military and commercial harbours and hosts one of Italy's biggest military... . |
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| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
Nov 1941 | 22 Aug 1942 | 31 Mar 1943 | 3 Oct 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the USN on 31 Mar 1943. Sold into mercantile service. | |
| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
28 Nov 1941 | 15 Jul 1942 | 22 Dec 1942 | 9 Oct 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the USN on 22 Dec 1942. Sold into mercantile service. | |
| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
22 Jul 1942 | 27 Nov 1942 | 23 Jul 1943 | 3 Oct 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the USN on 23 Jul 1943. Sold on 18 Oct 1946 into mercantile service. | |
| Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
14 Aug 1942 | 4 Dec 1942 | 16 Aug 1943 | 11 Oct 1945 | Formerly . Transferred to the USN on 16 Aug 1943. Sold in 1949 to Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... as mercantile Elbano. Resold in 1951 to the Italian Navy Italian Navy Italian Navy may refer to:* Pre-unitarian navies of the Italian states* Regia Marina, the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of Italy * Italian Navy , the navy of the Italian Republic... as hydrographic survey vessel Staffetta. |
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| Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Kingston Kingston, Ontario Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post... |
11 Feb 1943 | Transferred to the RN as . Returned to the USN on 20 Mar 1946. | ||||
| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
24 Dec 1942 | Transferred to the RN as . Returned to the USN on 5 Jan 1946. | ||||
| Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay.-History:... |
10 Apr 1943 | Transferred to the RN as . Returned to the USN on 21 Jun 1946. | ||||
| Midland Shipyards Ltd., Midland Midland, Ontario Midland is a town located on Georgian Bay in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.Situated at the southern end of Georgian Bay's 30,000 Islands, Midland is the economic centre of the region, with a 125-bed hospital and a local airport. It is the main town of the southern Georgian Bay area... |
24 Mar 1943 | Transferred to the RN as . Returned to the USN on 11 Jun 1946. | ||||
Vessels lost in action
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| 9 Feb 1942 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-654 while escorting convoy ON-60 approximately 420 nautical miles (777.8 km) east of Cape Race Cape Race Cape Race is a point of land located at the southeastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. Its name is thought to come from the original Portuguese name for this cape, "Raso", or "bare"... at 46-00N, 44-00W. 36 crew were killed. |
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| 22 Jun 1940 | Mined during sea trial off Hartlepool Hartlepool Hartlepool is a town and port in North East England.It was founded in the 7th century AD, around the Northumbrian monastery of Hartlepool Abbey. The village grew during the Middle Ages and developed a harbour which served as the official port of the County Palatine of Durham. A railway link from... on day of her commissioning. |
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| 9 Jun 1942 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-124 while escorting convoy ONS-100 at 52-12N, 32-37W. 58 French crew and 6 British crew were killed; the French crew being largely from Saint Pierre and Miquelon. 4 survivors rescued by . | |
| 21 Aug 1944 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-480 German submarine U-480 U-480 was an experimental Kriegsmarine Type VIIC U-boat of World War II, considered by many to be the first stealth submarine. It was equipped with a special rubber coating that made it harder to detect by British ASDIC sonar.-The coating:The Germans developed a... while escorting a convoy in the English Channel English Channel The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover... south of St. Catherine's Point at 50-18N, 00-51W. 59 crew killed and 31 rescued by RN motor torpedo boats. |
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| Charlottetown | 11 Sep 1942 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-517 while escorting convoy SQ-30 in the Saint Lawrence River Saint Lawrence River The Saint Lawrence is a large river flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. It is the primary drainage conveyor of the Great Lakes Basin... north of Cap-Chat Cap-Chat, Quebec Cap-Chat is a town in the Canadian province of Québec, in the Regional County Municipality of Haute-Gaspésie, and in the administrative region of Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine. Its geographical co-ordinates are lat. 49°6′ N; long. 66°41′ W. Cap-Chat is found 16 km west of... at 49-10N, 66-50W. 9 crew killed. |
| 19 Sep 1941 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-74 while escorting convoy SC-44 east of Cape Farewell Cape Farewell, Greenland Cape Farewell , is a headland on the southern shore of Egger Island, Greenland. Located at it is the southernmost extent of Greenland, projecting out into the North Atlantic Ocean and the Labrador Sea on the same latitude as Stockholm and the Scottish Shetland Islands. Egger and the associated... at 60-07N, 38-37W. 18 crew killed and 91 rescued. |
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| 6 Feb 1943 | Bombed and torpedoed by Luftwaffe Luftwaffe Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956.... aircraft while escorting convoy KMF-8 off Cape Tenes in Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant... at 36-15N, 00-15E. 59 crew killed, 50 rescued. |
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| 8 Aug 1944 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-667 off Trevose Head Trevose Head Trevose Head is a headland on the Atlantic coast of north Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately west of Padstow. The South West Coast Path runs around the whole promontory and is within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Trevose Head Heritage Coast... at 50-42N, 05-03W. 30 crew were killed. |
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| 25 Nov 1944 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-1228 in the Cabot Strait Cabot Strait Cabot Strait is a strait in eastern Canada approximately 110 kilometres wide between Cape Ray, Newfoundland and Cape North, Cape Breton Island. It is the widest of the three outlets for the Gulf of Saint Lawrence into the Atlantic Ocean, the others being the Strait of Belle Isle and Strait of Canso... at 47-34N, 59-11W. All hands were lost. |
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| 11 Feb 1942 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-136 while escorting convoy SC-67 west of Malin Head Malin Head Malin Head , on the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal, is usually given as the most northerly headland of the mainland of Ireland . In fact, the most northerly point is actually a headland named Banba's Crown on the Inishowen Peninsula about 2 km to the northeast... at 56-10N, 21-07W. 8 crew survived. |
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| 22 Feb 1943 | Mined on 22 Feb 1943 off Cape Espartel at 36-46N, 06-02W. 7 crew were killed. | |
| 7 Dec 1941 | Rammed and sunk while escorting convoy SC-58 after colliding with freighter Zypenberg in dense fog on the Grand Banks at 46-19N, 49-30W. 23 crew were lost. | |
| 9 Jan 1944 | Torpedoed and badly damaged by a U-boat. | |
| 5 Feb 1942 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-136 west of Erris Head at 55-05N, 18-43W. | |
| 10 Mar 1944 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-575 while escorting convoys SL-150 and MKS-41 at 45-24N, 18-09W. 92 crew were killed, 5 survivors rescued by . | |
| 6 May 1942 | Mined in Courrier Bay, Madagascar Madagascar The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa... at 12-12S, 49-19E. Foundered the following day while under tow. |
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| 17 Feb 1945 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-711 off the Kola Inlet Kola Peninsula The Kola Peninsula is a peninsula in the far northwest of Russia. Constituting the bulk of the territory of Murmansk Oblast, it lies almost completely to the north of the Arctic Circle and is washed by the Barents Sea in the north and the White Sea in the east and southeast... at 69-36N, 35-29E. |
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| 15 Apr 1941 | Bombed and sunk during sea trials by the Luftwaffe Luftwaffe Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956.... . Raised and repaired. Transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Royal Norwegian Navy The Royal Norwegian Navy is the branch of the Norwegian Defence Force responsible for naval operations. , the RNoN consists of approximately 3,700 personnel and 70 vessels, including 5 heavy frigates, 6 submarines, 14 patrol boats, 4 minesweepers, 4 minehunters, 1 mine detection vessel, 4 support... in 1947 as . |
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| 9 Feb 1943 | Mined and sunk while escorting a convoy in the Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant... off Derna at 32-48N, 21-10E. Entire crew rescued by . |
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| 14 Oct 1941 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-206 west of Gibraltar Gibraltar Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean. A peninsula with an area of , it has a northern border with Andalusia, Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region... at 36-00N, 06-30W. There were 3 survivors. |
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| 9 Nov 1942 | Rammed and sunk off Oran Oran Oran is a major city on the northwestern Mediterranean coast of Algeria, and the second largest city of the country.It is the capital of the Oran Province . The city has a population of 759,645 , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately 1,500,000, making it the second largest... at 35-49N, 01-05W in collision with . |
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| 17 Oct 1941 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-558 German submarine U-558 The German submarine U-558 was a Type VIIC U-boat in the service of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. She sank 19 shipping and military vessels totalling nearly 100,000 tons before being sunk by bombers in July 1943.... while escorting convoy SC-48 south of Iceland Iceland Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population... at 57-00N, 25-00W. All hands were lost. |
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| 6 Sep 1940 | Rammed and sunk 3 miles (4.8 km) off Altacarry Head at 55-18N, 05-57W in collision with mercantile Marsa. | |
| 9 Apr 1942 | Bombed and sunk by Japanese aircraft east of Ceylon Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the... at 07-21N, 81-57E. |
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| 9 Dec 1942 | Torpedoed and sunk by the Aviazione Ausiliara per la Marina Regia Aeronautica The Italian Royal Air Force was the name of the air force of the Kingdom of Italy. It was established as a service independent of the Royal Italian Army from 1923 until 1946... while escorting convoy KMS.3Y off Algiers Algiers ' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000... at 36-50N, 03-00E. 40 crew were killed. |
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| 21 Aug 1944 | Mined and heavily damaged off Courseulles-sur-Mer Courseulles-sur-Mer Courseulles-sur-Mer is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.It is a popular tourist destination not only with locals but also with international visitors who come to tour the Normandy landing beaches... . Beached on Juno Beach Juno Beach Juno or Juno Beach was one of five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during the Second World War. The sector spanned from Saint-Aubin, a village just east of the British Gold sector, to Courseulles, just west of the British Sword sector... and declared a total loss. |
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| 12 Aug 1941 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-568 while escorting convoy ONS-4 south of Iceland Iceland Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population... at 62-00N, 16-01W. All hands were lost. |
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| 27 Jun 1944 | Torpedoed and heavily damaged by U-988 off Normandy Normandy Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is in France.The continental territory covers 30,627 km² and forms the preponderant part of Normandy and roughly 5% of the territory of France. It is divided for administrative purposes into two régions:... at 49-48N, 00-49W. Declared a total loss and scrapped in 1947 at Llanelly Llanelly Llanelly is the name of both a village and its respective parish in Monmouthshire principal area, within the historic boundaries of Brecknockshire, south-east Wales.- Situation :... . |
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| 21 Sep 1943 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-952 while escorting convoy ON-202 at 57-00N, 31-10W. 1 survivor rescued by but was killed when that ship was torpedoed and sunk by U-666 on 23 Sep 1943. | |
| 24 Dec 1941 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-568 west of Alexandria Alexandria Alexandria is the second-largest city of Egypt, with a population of 4.1 million, extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country; it is also the largest city lying directly on the Mediterranean coast. It is Egypt's largest seaport, serving... at 31-46N, 28-00E. All hands were lost. |
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| 30 Jan 1943 | Torpedoed and sunk by while escorting convoy TE-14 off Béjaïa Béjaïa Béjaïa, Vgaiet or Bejaya is a Mediterranean port city on the Gulf of Béjaïa in Algeria; it is the capital of Béjaïa Province, Kabylia. Under French rule, it was formerly known under various European names, such as Budschaja in German, Bugia in Italian, and Bougie... at 36-56N, 05-40E. |
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| 19 Dec 1942 | Bombed and sunk by the Luftwaffe Luftwaffe Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956.... northwest of Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi is the second largest city in Libya, the main city of the Cyrenaica region , and the former provisional capital of the National Transitional Council. The wider metropolitan area is also a district of Libya... at 32-18N, 19-54E. |
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| 20 Feb 1945 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-1276 southeast of Dungarvan at 51-47N, 07-06W. | |
| 23 Aug 1941 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-564 while escorting convoy OG-71 west of Portugal Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the... at 40-25N, 10-40W. |
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| 18 Nov 1942 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-262 at 53-37N, 38-15W. 48 crew killed, 23 survivors were rescued by . | |
| 22 Feb 1945 | Torpedoed and sunk on 22 Feb 1945 by U-1004 off Falmouth Falmouth, Cornwall Falmouth is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,635.Falmouth is the terminus of the A39, which begins some 200 miles away in Bath, Somerset.... at 50-06N, 04-50W. 6 crew were killed. |
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Battle credits
German submarine U-147 (1940)
German submarine U-147 was a Type IID U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 10 April 1940 at Deutsche Werke in Kiel and went into service on 11 December 1940 under the command of Reinhard Hardegen.- Career :...
was sunk by the destroyer and on 2 June 1941
German submarine U-567
German submarine U-567 was a type VII C submarine of the German Kriegsmarine during the Second World War.She was commissioned on 24 October 1939 and her keel laid down on 27 April the following year. She was launched on 6 March 1941 and entered service in 3rd U-boat Flotilla on 24 April the same...
was sunk by the sloop and on 21 December 1941 U-356 was sunk by the destroyer , , and on 27 December 1942
German submarine U-756
German submarine U-756 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. Launched from Werk 139 at the Kriegsmarinewerft in Wilhelmshaven Lower Saxony , she served with 6th U-boat flotilla from December 30th, 1941 to September 1st, 1942 under the command of...
was sunk by on 1 September 1942 U-94 was sunk by an American Catalina flying boat and on 28 August 1942 U-588 was sunk by and the destroyer on 31 July 1942 U-379 was sunk by on 8 August 1942
German submarine U-82 (1941)
German submarine U-82 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II.Her keel was laid down on 15 May 1940 by Bremer Vulkan-Vegesacker Werft of Bremen. She was commissioned on 14 May 1941 with Oberleutnant Siegfried Rollmann in command. U-82 conducted three patrols, sinking...
was sunk by the sloop and on 6 February 1942 U-252 was sunk by the sloop and on 14 April 1942 U-432 was sunk by the corvette on 11 March 1943 U-444 was sunk by the destroyer and the corvette on 11 March 1943 U-609 was sunk by the corvette on 7 February 1943 U-536 was sunk by the frigate , and on 20 November 1943
German submarine U-753
German submarine U-753 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. Commissioned on 18 June 1941, she served with 3rd U-boat Flotilla until 30 November as a training boat, and as a front boat until 13 May 1943 under the command of Alfred Manhardt von...
was sunk by , the frigate , and a Canadian Sunderland seaplane
Short Sunderland
The Short S.25 Sunderland was a British flying boat patrol bomber developed for the Royal Air Force by Short Brothers. It took its service name from the town and port of Sunderland in northeast England....
on 13 May 1943
German submarine U-87 (1941)
German submarine U-87 was a Type VIIB U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 9 June 1938 at the Flender Werke yard at Lübeck; launched on 21 June 1941, and commissioned on 21 June 1941 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Joachim Berger...
was sunk by and the destroyer on 4 March 1943 U-224 was sunk by on 13 January 1943 U-135 was sunk by the sloop , the corvettes and , and an American Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft on 15 July 1943 U-306 was sunk by the destroyer and on 31 October 1943 U-617 was destroyed while grounded by and the Australian minesweeper on 12 September 1943 U-436 was sunk by the frigate and on 26 May 1943 U-192 was sunk by on 6 May 1943 U-125 was sunk by the destroyer and on 6 May 1943 U-634 was sunk by the sloop and on 30 August 1943 U-638 was sunk by on 5 May 1943 U-631 was sunk by on 17 October 1943 U-282 was sunk by the destroyers and and the corvette on 29 October 1943 U-414 was sunk by . on 25 May 1943 U-523 was sunk by the destroyer and on 25 August 1943
German submarine U-757
German submarine U-757 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. Launched from Werk 140at the Kriegsmarinewerft in Wilhelmshaven Lower Saxony , U-757 served with 6th U-boat Flotilla from February 28, 1942 to January 8, 1944 under the command of...
was sunk by the frigate and on 8 January 1944 U-744 was sunk by the destroyers , , , the frigate , and the corvettes , , and on 6 March 1944
German submarine U-741
German submarine U-741 was a Type VIIC U-boat built by F Schichau GmbH of Danzig and commissioned on 10 April 1943.U-741 undertook five war patrols, sinking no ships until her fifth patrol. On 15 August 1944, she attacked convoy FTM-69 and torpedoed the Royal Navy Tank Landing ship , 35 miles South...
was sunk by on 15 August 1944 U-641 was sunk by on 19 January 1944 U-845 was sunk by the destroyers and , the corvette and the frigate on 10 March 1944 U-1199 was sunk by the destroyer and on 21 January 1945
Post-war use
The relatively small Flowers were among the first warships to be declared surplus by Allied navies following the end of World War II. They had seen years of hard service in the North Atlantic and were made obsolete by the numerous large frigates, destroyers, and cruisers that entered service in the latter part of the war.32 vessels from the RN, RCN, and USN were transferred to Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
, the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, the Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, and Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
. These were typically operated according to their original design, as coastal patrol vessels, with many serving until the 1970s.
The Irish Navy
Irish Naval Service
The Naval Service is the navy of Ireland and is one of the three standing branches of the Irish Defence Forces. Its main base is in Haulbowline, County Cork....
bought three Flowers in 1946 . The fledgling navy had intended to purchase an additional three corvettes, as well as a number of surplus minesweepers
Minesweeper (ship)
A minesweeper is a small naval warship designed to counter the threat posed by naval mines. Minesweepers generally detect then neutralize mines in advance of other naval operations.-History:...
, but severe budget restrictions cancelled these plans, leaving the original three to serve alone through the 1960s and 1970s, despite antiquated armament, poor accommodation, and maintenance problems. Entry into the EEC
European Economic Community
The European Economic Community The European Economic Community (EEC) The European Economic Community (EEC) (also known as the Common Market in the English-speaking world, renamed the European Community (EC) in 1993The information in this article primarily covers the EEC's time as an independent...
in 1973 resulted in funding for replacement ships.
110 surplus Flowers were sold for commercial use. These saw various careers as mercantile freighters, smugglers, tugs, weather ships, and whalers. The remainder were scrapped. Of particular interest is the story of . She was declared surplus by the RCN and sold as a towboat specializing in deep-sea salvage. In November 1955, she rescued the freighter Makedonia in the North Pacific
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
, towing the vessel for over one month through severe weather, becoming one of the most famous salvage ships of all time.
The surplus RCN Flowers and were sold as mercantile freighters but were subsequently acquired in 1946 by the Mossad LeAliyah Bet, a branch of the Jewish Defense Association (Haganah
Haganah
Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces.- Origins :...
) in the British Mandate for Palestine. Mossad Le'aliyah Bet organized Jewish immigration from Europe into Palestine, in violation of unilateral British restrictions. The corvettes were intercepted in the Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...
during the summer of 1946 by the destroyer and interned
Internment
Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the meaning as: "The action of 'interning'; confinement within the limits of a country or place." Most modern usage is about individuals, and there is a distinction...
in Palestine. After Israel became independent in 1948, these commercial ships were commissioned into the Israeli Navy as the warships Hashomer and Hagana respectively.
Allied navies disposed of their Flowers so quickly following the war, the RN could not supply a single vessel to play Compass Rose in the 1953 film production of Nicholas Monsarrat
Nicholas Monsarrat
Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat RNVR was a British novelist known today for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea and Three Corvettes , but perhaps best known internationally for his novels, The Tribe That Lost Its Head and its sequel, Richer Than All His Tribe.- Early life :Born...
's novel The Cruel Sea. The Royal Hellenic Navy
Hellenic Navy
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supplied Kriezis (formerly ) for the role prior to her scrapping.
The only survivor of the entire class is , owned by the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust. She was laid up in reserve in March 1946 and converted in 1952 to a research vessel for Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries, a role she served in until the early 1980s when she was acquired by the trust. She has been restored to her wartime appearance and serves the summer months as a museum ship on loan to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is a Canadian maritime museum located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia.The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is a member institution of the Nova Scotia Museum and is the oldest and largest maritime museum in Canada with a collection of over 30,000 artifacts...
in Halifax
City of Halifax
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, Nova Scotia
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, while wintering securely in the naval dockyard at CFB Halifax
CFB Halifax
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under the care of Maritime Forces Atlantic
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, Maritime Command
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The Royal Canadian Navy , is the naval force of Canada. The RCN is one of three environmental commands within the unified Canadian Forces. Operating 33 warships and several auxiliary vessels, the Royal Canadian Navy consists of 8,500 Regular Force and 5,100 Primary Reserve sailors, supported by...
. Sackvilles presence in Halifax is considered very appropriate, given the port was an important North American convoy assembly port during the war. Sackville makes her first appearance each spring when she is towed by a naval tug from HMC Dockyard to a location off Point Pleasant Park
Point Pleasant Park
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on the first Sunday in May to participate in the Commemoration of the Battle of the Atlantic ceremonies held at a memorial in the park overlooking the entrance to Halifax Harbour
Halifax Harbour
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. Sackville typically hosts several dozen RCN veterans on this day and has also participated in several burials at sea
Burial at sea
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for dispersing the ashes of RCN veterans of the Battle of the Atlantic at this location.
Literature
- Alex H. Cherry wrote Yankee R N, the story of a Wall Street banker who volunteered for active duty in the RN, including details of Flower operations.
- Peter Coy, who served in in the North Atlantic between June 1942 and August 1944, wrote 'The Echo of a Fighting Flower' about her and B3 Escort Group, comprising 2 British and 4 Free French corvettes.
- Hugh GarnerHugh GarnerHugh Garner was a Canadian novelist.Born in Batley, Yorkshire, England, Garner came to Canada in 1919 with his parents, and was raised in Toronto, Ontario. During the Great Depression, he rode the rails in both Canada and the United States, and then joined the International Brigades in the Spanish...
wrote Storm Below which provides a detailed account of Flower-class corvettes and the stresses of shipboard life during World War II. - James B. Lamb wrote The Corvette Navy, which accounts the use of these vessels by the RCN during World War II.
- Hal LawrenceHal LawrenceHarold Ernest Thomas Lawrence was a Canadian naval officer and author. He was born in the Corps of Royal Engineers barracks at Chatham, England; and moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia.-Career:...
wrote A Bloody War including first-hand accounts of his service aboard and . - Nicholas MonsarratNicholas MonsarratCommander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat RNVR was a British novelist known today for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea and Three Corvettes , but perhaps best known internationally for his novels, The Tribe That Lost Its Head and its sequel, Richer Than All His Tribe.- Early life :Born...
wrote the best-known fictionalised account of Flower-class corvette operations in his novel The Cruel Sea. Three Corvettes, a less well known volume by the same author is a collection of wartime essays of his personal experiences as an officer onboard a Flower, although only the first part deals with North Atlantic convoy escort duties. - Robert Radcliffe wrote Upon Dark Waters, a fictionalized account of Flower-class corvette Daisy, set in 1942 on the North Atlantic.
- Denys RaynerDenys RaynerDenys Arthur Rayner DSC & Bar, VRD, RNVR fought throughout the Battle of the Atlantic. After intensive war service at sea, Rayner became a writer, a farmer, and a successful designer and builder of small sailing craft - his first being the Westcoaster; his most successful being the glass fibre...
wrote Escort, a first-hand account of his experiences as an officer aboard a Flower. - Douglas ReemanDouglas ReemanDouglas Edward Reeman, born at Thames Ditton, is a British author who has written many historical fiction books on the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars....
's 1969 novel "To Risks Unknown" features the fictional Flower-class corvette Thistle.
Modelling
- Ship modellers have been attracted to this class of ship for a variety of reasons. The class has an extensive history of war service, and the original was small enough to mean a model of about 2 ft (0.6096 m) in length can support considerable detail.
- Since the class was used by many nations, and had almost unlimited modifications, there is a lot of scope for individual variation. The result is a wide variety of modelling kits are available from many manufacturers, and almost all United Kingdom, United States, and Canadian model boat clubs will have at least one owner of a Flower-class model.. RevellRevellRevell is the brand name today of two manufacturers of scale plastic models. The original US company merged with another, Monogram, but now trades only under the Revell name. European Revell Germany separated from the US company in 2006.-Early history:...
makes a 1/72 scale kit of . The UK company founded by John Piper had previously released a 1/96 scale model of a Flower-class corvette in 1978. - Many specialist model companies sell a variety of ancillary Flower detail items. Several model boat clubs are dedicated exclusively to modelling the class.
See also
- American Flower class corvettesAmerican Flower class corvettesThe American Flower-class corvettes were those ships of the Flower class built for, or operated by, the United States Navy during World War II.-Construction history:...
- Bathurst-class corvetteBathurst class corvetteThe Bathurst class corvettes were a class of general purpose vessels produced in Australia during World War II. Originally classified as minesweepers, but widely referred to as corvettes, the Bathurst class vessels fulfilled a broad anti-submarine, anti-mine, and convoy escort role.Sixty Bathurst...
- Whale catcherWhalerA whaler is a specialized ship, designed for whaling, the catching and/or processing of whales. The former included the whale catcher, a steam or diesel-driven vessel with a harpoon gun mounted at its bows. The latter included such vessels as the sail or steam-driven whaleship of the 16th to early...
External links
- The Flower Class Corvette Forums A dedicated discussion forum which maintains the largest online collection of Flower Class Corvette images and accessible historical documents.
- uboat.net has pages on the original and revised Flower classes.
- The Flower Class Corvette Association
- HMCS Sackville - The Last Corvette
- "Corvette K-225" -- a 1943 film (the real K225 was HMCS KitchenerHMCS Kitchener (K225)HMCS Kitchener was a Royal Canadian Navy which took part in convoy escort duties during World War II. The vessel was originally named HMCS Vancouver but was renamed in November 1941 before the ship was launched....
) - Flower Class Corvettes by Bob Pearson & Chris Banyai-Riepl
- 1993 film "Lifeline to Victory" -- filmed aboard SackvilleHMCS Sackville (K181)HMCS Sackville was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later served as a civilian research vessel. She is now a museum ship located in Halifax, Nova Scotia and the last surviving Flower-class corvette.-Wartime service:...
- HMS Violet
- Diary of a Petty Officer on HMS La Malouine during Convoy PQ.17.