| 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 | |
| History | HMS Burdock is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy List Sold to be broken up for scrap in June 1946. |
Commands listed for HMS Burdock (K 126)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Lt. Harold Geeves Chesterman, RNR | 18 Mar 1941 | 14 May 1941 |
| 2 | T/Lt. Halford John Fellows, SANF(V) | 14 May 1941 | 4 Jun 1942 |
| 3 | Lt.Cdr. Eric Hope Lynes, RD, RNR | 4 Jun 1942 | 28 Aug 1943 |
| 4 | T/Lt. Frederick Robert Max Greasley, RNR | 28 Aug 1943 | 3 Mar 1944 |
| 5 | Lt. Harold Malcolm Collier, RNR | 3 Mar 1944 | mid 1945 |
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Noteable events involving Burdock include:
27 Jun 1941
HMS Burdock (Lt. H.J. Fellows, SARNVR) picks up 6 survivors from the British merchant River Lugar that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat 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 sister ship 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.
7 Jul 1944
BAY OF BISCAY. HMS Burdock picked up approx. 200 survivors from torpedoed Fighter Direction Tender 216.(FDT 216). FDT 216 was torpedoed by a Junkers 88,as it was sinking the order to abandon ship was given and the ship deliberately sunk to keep it out of enemy hands. Five crew were lost, 1565310 ACI J H Ferguson RAFVR. 1036266 LAC J Gaughan RAFVR. 1001089 Cpl. G Logan RAFVR. 1434174 LAC R J Peckham MID RAFVR.1681468 ACI T C Rolt. RAFVR.
My father Alan Hamilton was a survivor and is still with us at the grand age of 89.