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HMS Sunflower (K 41)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 41 
Built bySmiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) 
Ordered31 Aug, 1939 
Laid down24 May, 1940 
Launched19 Aug, 1940 
Commissioned25 Jan, 1941 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Scrapped at Hale in August 1947.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. John Treasure Jones, RNR
18 December 1940 – 19 February 1943
RD awarded on ???

Lt.Cdr. James Plomer, RCNVR
19 February 1943 – 20 March 1944
DSC awarded on 19 October 1943

T/A/Lt.Cdr. Leslie Hugh Stammers, RNVR
20 March 1944 – 31 July 1944

T/A/Lt.Cdr. H.S. May, RNR
31 July 1944 – still in command in April 1944 according to the Navy List

HMS Sunflower is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Sunflower include:

27 Jul, 1941
HMS Sunflower (Lt.Cdr. J.T. Jones, RNR) picks up 6 survivors from the British merchant Hawkinge that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-203 about 800 nautical miles south-west of Fastnet in position 44º55'N, 17º44'W.

30 Jul, 1941
The British merchant Shahristan is torpedoed and sunk south-east of the Azores in position 35º19'N, 23º53'W. HMS Sunflower (Lt.Cdr. J.T. Jones, RNR) later picks up 37 survivors.

16 Aug, 1942
HMS Sunflower (Lt.Cdr. J.T. Jones, RNR) picks up 17 survivors from the British merchant Richmond Castle that was torpedoed and sunk on 4 August 1942 in the North Atlantic in position 50º25'N, 35º05'W by the German submarine U-176.

17 Dec, 1942
HMS Sunflower (Lt.Cdr. J.T. Jones, RNR) picks up 27 survivors from the British destroyer HMS Firedrake (Cdr. E.H. Tilden, DSC, RN), which was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-211 in the North Atlantic in position 50º50'N, 25º15'W.

5 May, 1943
The German submarine U-638 was sunk in the North Atlantic north-east of Newfoundland, in position 54º12'N, 44º05'W, by depth charges from the British corvette HMS Sunflower (A/Lt.Cdr. J. Plomer, RCNVR).

HMS Sunflower also picks up 66 survivors from the British merchant Dolius that was U-638's last victim. northeast of Belle Isle (see map)

17 Oct, 1943
The German submarine U-631 was sunk in the North Atlantic south-east of Cape Farewell, Greenland, in position 58º13'N, 32º29'W, by depth charges from the British corvette Sunflower (A/Lt.Cdr. J. Plomer, RCNVR). (see map)

29 Oct, 1943
The German submarine U-282 was sunk south-east of Greenland, in position 55º28'N, 31º57'W, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Vidette (Lt.Cdr. R. Hart, DSC and Bar, RN) and HMS Duncan (Cdr. P.W. Gretton, OBE, DSO, DSC, RN) and the British corvette HMS Sunflower (Lt.Cdr. J. Plomer, DSC, RCNVR). (see map)


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