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HMS Wallflower (K 44)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 44 
Built bySmiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) 
Ordered31 Aug, 1939 
Laid down23 Jul, 1940 
Launched14 Nov, 1940 
Commissioned7 Mar, 1941 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistorySold on 29 July 1946.
Refitted as bouy-boat for Spermacet Whalingin 1949 and renamed Asbjrrn Larsen.

Sold to Kosmos 1951 and refitted to whaler in Kiel during summer 1951.
Laid up during 1952/1953, but later in went back in service.
Last season as whaler was 1965/1966.
Laid up in Sandefjord in October 1966.
Later sold to shipbreakers in Grimstad.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Ismay James Tyson, RNR
14 February 1941 – 18 May 1942
RD awarded on ???

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Lt. George Richard Greaves, RNR
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T/A/Lt.Cdr. T.D. Bennett, RNR
21 October 1944 – still in command in April 1944 according to the Navy List

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


Noteable events involving Wallflower include:

19 Aug, 1941
HMS Wallflower (Lt.Cdr. I.J. Tyson, RN) picks 10 survivors from the British passenger ship Aguila that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-201 west-south-west of Fastnet Rock in position 49º23'N, 17º56'W.

23 Aug, 1941
HMS Wallflower (Lt.Cdr. I.J. Tyson, RN) picks up 3 survivors from the British merchant Stork that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-201 north-west of Lisbon in position 40º43'N, 11º39'W.

28 Aug, 1942
HMS Wallflower picks up 62 survivors from the Dutch merchant Abbekerk that was torpedoed and sunk on 25 August 1942 in the North Atlantic in position 52º05'N, 30º50'W by the German submarine U-604.

25 Aug, 1943
The German submarine U-523 was sunk in the North Atlantic west of Vigo, in position 42º03'N, 18º02'W, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Wanderer (Lt.Cdr. R.F. Whinney, RN) and the British corvette HMS Wallflower (Lt. G.R. Greaves, RNR). (see map)


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