Corvette of the Flower class
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 33 |
| Built by | Harland & Wolff Ltd. (Belfast, Northern Ireland) |
| Ordered | 19 Sep, 1939 |
| Laid down | 19 Jul, 1940 |
| Launched | 31 Oct, 1940 |
| Commissioned | 30 Dec, 1940 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
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| History | Sold on 31 July 1946.
Became the merchantile Rubis in 1947.
Renamed Seislim in 1954.
Scrapped at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Holland in 1959.
Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Robert Arthur Dillon Cambridge, DSC, RNR
12 November 1940 – 3 June 1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. W.T. Hodson, DSC, RNVR
3 June 1943 – 21 April 1944
T/A/Lt.Cdr. H.E. Petre, RNR
21 April 1944 – 25 September 1944
T/Lt. Thomas Cooper, DSC, RNR
25 September 1944 – still in command in April 1945 according to the Navy List
HMS Kingcup is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy List |
| Noteable events involving Kingcup include: 11 Dec, 1941
HMS Kingcup (Lt.Cdr. R.A.D. Cambridge, DSC, RNR) picks up 33 survivors from the British merchant Kirnwood and 56 survivors from the British merchant Kurdistan that were torpedoed and sunk the previous day by the German submarine U-130 west of Rockall in position 56º57'N, 16º35'W. |
