• HMS Coreopsis was a Flower-class corvette, built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War which served in the Battle of the Atlantic. In 1943, she...
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    HMS Gardenia was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy and was built by William Simons and Company in 1940. She was named after Gardenia...
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    HMS Bluebell was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy in World War II. Ordered from Fleming & Ferguson of Paisley, Scotland on 27 July...
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    novel The Cruel Sea. The Royal Hellenic Navy supplied Kriezis (formerly HMS Coreopsis) for the role prior to her scrapping. The only survivor of the entire...
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    ship was laid down on 21 March 1940. The ship was launched 30 December 1940 and commissioned 3 February 1941. Along with HMS Malcolm and others, the ship...
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  • Sawyer 1990, pp. 91–92. "Pardo". The Yard. Retrieved 27 February 2017. "HMS Coreopsis". The Yard. Retrieved 27 February 2017. Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 300...
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  • HMS Gladiolus was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy, the first ship of her class. She was laid down at Smiths Dock Company on the River Tees on...
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  • HMS Coreopsis and HMS Portchester Castle reactivated in 1952 for the film version of The Cruel Sea; the cruiser HMS Cleopatra and the minelayer HMS Manxman...
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    the corvettes Arabis, Coreopsis, Heliotrope, and Hibiscus, and three naval trawlers as the escort of Convoy HX 79 on 18 October 1940; the convoy came under...
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  • HMS Zinnia was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy. She was built at Smiths Dock Company, South Bank-on-Tees, launched on 28 November...
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    Sturdy, the minesweeper HMS Jason, the corvettes HMS Hibiscus, Heliotrope, Coreopsis and Arabis with the anti-submarine trawlers HMT Lady Elsa, Blackfly and...
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  • Τομπάζης) was a Greek corvette of the Flower class, originally the British HMS Tamarisk. It was one of four corvettes of this type transferred to Greece...
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    HMS Geranium (K16) was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was later sold to Denmark and renamed Thetis...
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    ex-HMS Coreopsis, commissioned RN August 1940, handed over 10 November 1943, returned to RN 1 June 1952 and scrapped in July. Sakhtouris; ex-HMS Peony...
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    weather ship. She was broken up in Dublin in 1962. "HMS Snowflake (K 211) of the Royal Navy". uboat.net. 1940-08-03. Retrieved 2024-10-06. Cherrett, Martin...
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  • Royal Navy as HMS Fleur de Lys and HMS Nasturtium. La Malouine took part in her first convoy, out of Freetown, Sierra Leone, in September 1940. At the end...
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    293 anti-ship guided missile. Several sailors were injured and killed in HMS Bideford (40th EG) but Snowberry escaped damage. Two days later, the 5th...
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  • Glomma 1945. HMS Coreopsis, (Clyde-built), Flower-class corvette for British Admiralty, launched 23 May 1940, completed 17 August 1940, scrapped 1952...
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    during World War II. She was built as the British Flower-class corvette HMS Heliotrope, and was in service with the Royal Navy during the first years...
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    aft, which was a poor messing arrangement. On 16 November 1940 Salvia and her sister ships HMS Gloxinia, Hyacinth and Peony sailed from the Port of Liverpool...
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    Alysse (formerly HMS Alyssum) was one of the nine Flower-class corvettes lent by the Royal Navy to the Free French Naval Forces. Alysse was built by George...
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    Aconit (formerly HMS Aconite) was one of the nine Flower-class corvettes lent by the Royal Navy to the Free French Naval Forces. During World War II,...
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    military ships: HMS Coreopsis laid down 13 October 1939, launched 23 May 1940 and completed 17 August 1940. Transferred to Greece as Kriezis. HMS Crocus laid...
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  • HMS Heartsease was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She served with both the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the Second World War...
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  • HMS Heather was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. McCluskie, Tom (2013). The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff. Stroud: The History Press. p...
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    HMS Abelia was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy and was built by Harland and Wolff in 1941. She was launched on 28 November 1940...
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    January 1940 as part of the 1939-1940 Flower-class building program and laid down at George T. Davie & Sons Ltd., Lauzon on 24 February 1940. Launched...
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    HMS Spiraea was a Flower-class corvette of the British Royal Navy. Named for a genus of shrub, Spiraea served in the Second World War as an escort. The...
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  • HMS Hollyhock was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy. During her career, she was frequently used for escorting convoys. She was captained...
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    July 1948 and scrapped at Troon in April 1949. "HMS Cowslip (K 196) of the Royal Navy". uboat.net. 1940-04-08. Retrieved 2024-10-09. Prag, Christian (2009-04-16)...
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