Corvette of the Flower class
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 126 |
| Built by | John Crown & Sons Ltd. (Sunderland, U.K) : N.E. Marine |
| Ordered | 15 Dec, 1939 |
| Laid down | 13 Jun, 1940 |
| Launched | 14 Dec, 1940 |
| Commissioned | 27 Mar, 1941 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
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| History | Sold to be broken up for scrap in June 1946.
Scrapped at Hayle in August 1946.
Commanding Officers:
Lt. Harold Geeves Chesterman, RNR
18 March 1941 – 14 May 1941
Lt. H.J. Fellowes, SARNVR
14 May 1941 – 4 June 1942
Lt.Cdr. Eric Hope Lynes, RD, RNR
4 June 1942 – 28 August 1943
T/Lt. F.R.M. Greasley, RNR
28 August 1943 – 3 March 1944
Lt. H.M. Collier, RNR
3 March 1944 – still in command in April 1945 according to the Navy List
HMS Burdock is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy List |
| Noteable events involving Burdock include: 27 Jun, 1941
HMS Burdock (Lt. H.J. Fellowes, SANVR) picks up 6 survivors from the British merchant River Lugar that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-69 about 200 miles southeast of the Azores in position 24.00N, 21.00W. 6 Mar, 1943
At 1700 hours of 5 March 1943, Burdock and sistership Thyme sailed from Bissau to escort a freighter arriving from Freetown. At 2230 hours a sonar contact was depth charged then lost, but the corvettes believed a u-boot to be in the area.
Just after midnight of 6 March, a surface radar contact was registered ahead and Burdock increased speed and rammed. It was only after survivors were rescued that it was realized burdock had rammed and sunk HMS ML 251, on ASW patrol from Bissau to Freetown. Neither vessel had been aware of the other's presence in the area. |
