Allied Warships

HMS Monkshood (K 207)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 207 
Built byFleming & Ferguson Ltd. (Paisley, Scotland) 
Ordered28 Jun 1940 
Laid down1 Oct 1940 
Launched17 Apr 1941 
Commissioned31 Jul 1941 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Sold in 1947.
Became the merchantile W.R. Strang in 1948.
Sold 1948 to Union Whaling.
Refitted as bouy-boat.
Later refitted as whaler.
Sold in 1957 to Taiyo Gyogyo KK, Tokyo and renamed Toshi Maru.
Diesel engines were installed in 1957.
Scrapped in Japan in 1965.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. James Edward Rickards Wilford, RNR
27 May 1941 - ???

Lt. Geoffrey William McGuiness, RNR
??? – 18 September 1944

Lt. Oswald Richard Dudley Stephen, SANF(V)
18 September 1944 – June 1945

Lt. Frederick Howard Layte, RNR
June 1945 – still listed in the October 1945 Navy List

 

Commands listed for HMS Monkshood (K 207)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. James Edward Rickards Wilford, RNR27 May 1941???

2Lt. Geoffrey William McGuiness, RNR???18 Sep 1944
3Lt. Oswald Richard Dudley Stephen, SANF(V)18 Sep 1944Jun 1945
4Lt. Frederick Howard Layte, RNRJun 1945Oct 1945 ?

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Noteable events involving Monkshood include:


15 Jul 1944
The British merchant Tanda is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-181 northwest of Mangalore in the Arabian Sea in position 13º22'N, 74º09'E. HMIS Bihar (T/Lt. W.L. Deeble, DSC, RINR) and HMS Monkshood (Lt. G.W. McGuinness, RNR) together pick up 197 survivors.

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