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Allied Warships

HMS Marigold (K 87)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 87 
Built byHall, Russell & Co. Ltd. (Aberdeen, Scotland) 
Ordered31 Aug, 1939 
Laid down26 Jan, 1940 
Launched4 Sep, 1940 
Commissioned28 Feb, 1941 
Lost9 Dec, 1942 
Loss position36.50N, 03.00E (See a map)
 
History

HMS Marigold (Lt. James Alexander Smith Halcrow, RNR) was torpedoed and sunk by Italian aircraft off Algiers, Algeria in position 36º50'N, 03º00'E.

The corvette was escorting convoy KMS.3Y, which was attacked in the late evening by 3 S.79 VTBs of the 105º Gruppo AS (105th Torpedo group) led by Capt. Urbano Mancini. Hit by a torpedo about 2200 hrs and sank in a short time with 40 of the crew killed.

Commanding Officers:
Lt. William Sinclair MacDonald, RNVR
January 1941 - ???

T/Lt. James Renwick, RNR
??? – 25 April 1942
DSO awarded on 27 January 1942

Lt. James Alexander Smith Halcrow, RNR
25 April 1942 - 9 December 1942+ 


Noteable events involving Marigold include:

7 May, 1941
The British merchant Ixion is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-94 about 200 miles southwest of Reykjavik, Iceland in position 61º29'N, 22º40'W. HMS Marigold (Lt. W.S. Macdonald, RNVR) later picks up 19 survivors.

16 Nov, 1941
The German submarine U-433 was sunk at 2155hrs on 16 November 1941 in the Mediterranean south of Malaga, Spain, in position 36º13'N, 04º42'W, after being damaged by depth charges and gunfire 25nm east of Gibraltar by the British corvette HMS Marigold (T/Lt. J. Renwick, RNR). (see map)

15 Jun, 1942
HMS Marigold (Lt. J.A.S. Halcrow, RNR) picks up 41 survivors from the British merchant Etrib and 20 survivors from the Norwegian tanker Slemdal that were torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-552 west of Corunna, Spain in position 43º18'N, 17º38'W.

Marigold also picks up 29 survivors from the British merchant Thurso that were torpedoed and sunk by the same German submarine in position 43º41'N, 18º02'W.

13 Nov, 1942
HMS Marigold (Lt. J.A.S. Halcrow, RNR) picks up 81 survivors from the British merchant Maron that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-81 north-west of Oran, Algeria in position 36º27'N, 00º55'W.


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