Allied Warships

FFL Renoncule (K 117)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Free French Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 117 
Built byWilliam Simons & Co. Ltd. (Renfrew, Scotland) 
Ordered25 Jul 1939 
Laid down19 Jul 1940 
Launched25 Jun 1941 
Commissioned28 Jul 1941 
End service 1947 
Loss position
 
History

Transferred to the free French Navy upon completion on 28 July 1941.
Returned to the Royal Navy in 1947 and sold to Salvesen in 1947 and refitted as bouy-boat Southern Lily at Smiths Dock, delivered in January 1948.
Last season was 1962/1963.
Laid up in Melsomvik until January 1967.
Towed to Brugge, Belgium for scrapping, arrived 9 January 1967.

 
Former nameHMS Ranonculus (K 117)

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Noteable events involving Renoncule include:


23 Sep 1943
FFL Renoncule and HMCS Morden pick up survivors from the American merchant Steel Voyager that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-952 in the North Atlantic in position 53º18'N, 40º24'W.

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