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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Flower-class corvette (redirect from HMS Gloriosa)
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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HMCS Snowberry (redirect from HMS Snowberry (K166))
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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USS Surprise (PG-63) (redirect from HMS Heliotrope (1940))
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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French corvette Alysse (redirect from HMS Alyssum (K100))
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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French corvette Aconit (redirect from HMS Aconite (K58))
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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HMCS Windflower (redirect from HMS Windflower (K155))
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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