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HMS Coreopsis (K 32)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 32 
Built byA & J Inglis Ltd. (Glasgow, Scotland) : Kincaid 
Ordered25 Jul, 1939 
Laid down19 Sep, 1939 
Launched23 Apr, 1940 
Commissioned17 Aug, 1940 
End service10 Nov, 1943 
Loss position
 
HistoryServed as RHN Kriezis from 10 November 1943 to July 1952.
Returned to the Royal Navy on 1 June 1952.
Sold to T. Young and scrapped in Sunderland on 22 July 1952.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. A.H. Davies, RNVR
17 July 1940 - ???

T/Lt. Benjamin Charles Hamilton, RNR
??? - 10 November 1943
T/Lt. B.C. Hamilton came on board on 29 July 1942 but did not take command until early 1943. 

Career notesTo the Royal Hellenic Navy as Kriezis

Noteable events involving Coreopsis include:

In the 1953 film 'The Cruel Sea' HMS Compass Rose was played by ex-HMS Coreopsis. She was given pennant number K49 in the film which was the number of HMS Crocus (sometimes wrongly thought to have been used in the film).

The film was shot in 1952, upon completion of the shots the Coreopsis was sold for scrap.

20 Oct, 1940
HMS Coreopsis (Lt.Cdr. A.H. Davies, RNVR) picks up 33 survivors from the British merchant La Estancia that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-47 in the North Atlantic, south of Iceland, in position 57º00'N, 17º00'W.

16 Nov, 1942
HMS Coreopsis (Lt.Cdr. A.H. Davies, RNVR) picks up 169 survivors from the British merchant Clan Mactaggart that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-92 50 miles southwest of Cadiz in position 36º08'N, 07º23'W.

5 Mar, 1943
HMS Coreopsis (T/Lt. B.C. Hamilton, RNR) picks up 12 survivors from the British merchant Fidra, 47 survivors from the British merchant Ger-y-Bryn and 44 survivors from the British merchant Trefusis that were torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-130 northwest of Lisbon, Portugal in position 43º50'N, 14º46'W.


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