| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 01 |
| Built by | Ailsa Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. (Troon, Scotland) |
| Ordered | 21 Sep 1939 |
| Laid down | 21 Dec 1939 |
| Launched | 26 May 1941 |
| Commissioned | |
| End service | |
| History | Transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy and renamed Andenes. Sold to Union Whaling in 1956. Towed from Sandefjord to Glasgow, Scotland in June 1956 for convertion to whaler by A & J Inglis, Ltd. Renamed Colin Frye. Sold in 1957 to Taiyo Gyogyo KK,. Tokyo. Renamed Toshi Maru No.2. Scrapped in Japan in 1970. |
| Career notes | to the Royal Norwegian Navy as HNoMS Andenes |
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