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Allied Warships

HMS Dianella (K 07)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 07 
Built byJ. Lewis & Sons Ltd. (Aberdeen, Scotland) 
Ordered25 Jul, 1939 
Laid down8 Dec, 1939 
Launched3 Sep, 1940 
Commissioned6 Jan, 1941 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Name changed from HMS Daffodil on 26 October 1940 prior to commissioning.

Sold to J. Lee for scrapping in early 1947, arrived for scrapping at Portaferry on 24 June 1947.

Commanding Officers:
Lt. James Gavin Rankin, RNR
3 January 1941 – 4 January 1943

T/Lt. John Frank Tognola, RNR
4 January 1943 – still in command in April 1945 according to the Navy List

HMS Dianella is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy List 

Former nameHMS Daffodil

Noteable events involving Dianella include:

29 Mar, 1941
HMS Dianella (Lt. J.G. Rankin, RNR) picks up 35 survivors from the British merchant Germanic that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-48 south of Iceland in position 61º18'N, 22º05'W.

HMS Dianella also picks up 44 survivors from the British merchant Hylton that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-48 south of Iceland in position 60º20'N, 18º10'W.

5 Jul, 1942
The British merchant Empire Byron is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-703 in the Barents Sea in position 76º18'N, 33º30'E. 63 survivors are later picked up HMS Dianella (Lt. J. Rankin, RNR).


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