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Allied Warships

HMS Candytuft (i) (K 09)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 09 
Built byGrangemouth Dry Dock Co. (Grangemouth, Scotland): N.E. Marine 
Ordered25 Jul, 1939 
Laid down31 Oct, 1939 
Launched8 Jul, 1940 
Commissioned16 Oct, 1940 
End service4 Mar, 1942 
Loss position
 
History

Acquired by the USN on 4 March 1942 at New York.
Commissioned in the USN after a refit on 11 June 1942.
Decommissioned at Harwich, England on 22 August 1945 and returned to the RN on 26 August 1945.
Stricken by the USN on 17 September 1945.
Sold on 9 July 1946.
Became merchant ship Maw Hwa in 1947.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Frank Bentley Collinson, RNR (retired)
28 August 1940 – ca. October / November 1941

T/Lt. Connel Percy Thode, RNVR
Ca. October / November 1941 > 

Career notesTo the United States Navy as USS Tenacity

Noteable events involving Candytuft (i) include:

8 Jul, 1941
HMS Candytuft (Lt.Cdr. F.B. Collinson, RNR, (retired)) picks up 7 survivors from the Icelandic merchant Hekla that was torpedoed and sunk on 29 June south of Cape Farewell in position 58º20'N, 43º00'W by the German submarine U-564.


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