Allied Warships

HMS Saxifrage (K 04)

Corvette of the Flower class


HMS Saxifrage as seen during the war.

World Ship Photo Library photograph with thanks to Jan Visser.

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 04 
Built byCharles Hill & Sons Ltd. (Bristol, U.K.) : Richardson, Westgarth & Clark 
Ordered21 Sep 1939 
Laid down1 Feb 1941 
Launched24 Oct 1941 
Commissioned6 Feb 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Sold in August 1947.
Became the Royal Norwegian Navy's Polarfront I.

Commanding Officers:
T/A/Lt.Cdr. Richard Popkis Chapman, RNR
1 November 1941 – 31 May 1942

Lt. Norman Leslie Knight, RNR
31 May 1942 – 17 May 1943

T/A/Lt.Cdr. James Renwick, DSO, RNR
17 May 1943 – June 1944

Lt. David Kenneth Hamilton Kinloch, RNR
June 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy list

 

Commands listed for HMS Saxifrage (K 04)

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CommanderFromTo
1T/A/Lt.Cdr. Richard Popkis Chapman, RNR1 Nov 194131 May 1942
2Lt. Norman Leslie Knight, RNR31 May 194217 May 1943
3T/Lt. James Renwick, DSO, RNR17 May 1943Jun 1944
4Lt. David Kenneth Hamilton Kinloch, RNRJun 1944Oct 1945 ?

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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.

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