Corvette of the Flower class
HMS Saxifrage as seen during the war.
World Ship Photo Library photograph with thanks to Jan Visser.
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 04 |
| Built by | Charles Hill & Sons Ltd. (Bristol, U.K.) : Richardson, Westgarth & Clark |
| Ordered | 21 Sep, 1939 |
| Laid down | 1 Feb, 1941 |
| Launched | 24 Oct, 1941 |
| Commissioned | 6 Feb, 1942 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
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| History | Sold in August 1947.
Became the Royal Norwegian Navy's Polarfront I.
Commanding Officers:
T/A/Lt.Cdr. R.P. Chapman, RNR
1 November 1941 – 31 May 1942
Lt. N.L. Knight, RNR
31 May 1942 – 17 May 1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. James Renwick, DSO, RNR
17 May 1943 – June 1944
Lt. D.K.H. Kinloch, RNR
June 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy list |
| Noteable events involving Saxifrage include: 4 Jul, 1942
HMS Saxifrage (Lt. N.L. Knight, RNR) picks up 35 survivors from the British merchant Putney Hill that was torpedoed and finally sunk with gunfire on 26 June 1942 by the German submarine U-203 about 450 nautical miles east-north-east of Puerto Rico in position 24º20'N, 63º16'W. 4 Jan, 1943
HMS Saxifrage (Lt. N.L. Knight, RNR) picks up 27 men from the British tanker British Vigilance that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-514 about 900 nautical miles north-east of Barbados in position 20º58'N, 44º40'W. 9 Jan, 1943
HMS Saxifrage (Lt. N.L. Knight, RNR) picks up 34 survivors from the British tanker Empire Lytton that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-442 west of the Canary Islands in position 28º08'N, 28º20'W. |
