| 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 | |
| History | Sold to be broken up for scrap in June 1946. Commanding Officers: Lt. Halford John Fellowes, SANVR Lt.Cdr. Eric Hope Lynes, RD, RNR T/Lt. Frederick Robert Max Greasley, RNR Lt. Harold Malcolm Collier, RNR HMS Burdock is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy List |
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 | Lt. Halford John Fellowes, SANVR | 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 | Apr 1945 ? |
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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.