Corvette of the Flower class
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 09 |
| Built by | Grangemouth Dry Dock Co. (Grangemouth, Scotland): N.E. Marine |
| Ordered | 25 Jul, 1939 |
| Laid down | 31 Oct, 1939 |
| Launched | 8 Jul, 1940 |
| Commissioned | 16 Oct, 1940 |
| End service | 4 Mar, 1942 |
| Loss position | |
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| 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 notes | To 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. |
