Corvette of the Flower class
| Navy | The Royal Canadian Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 170 |
| Built by | Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. (Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada) |
| Ordered | 1 Feb, 1940 |
| Laid down | 25 Oct, 1940 |
| Launched | 5 May, 1941 |
| Commissioned | 6 Sep, 1941 |
| End service | 29 Jun, 1945 |
| Loss position | |
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| History | Fo'c's'le extended at Llondonderry (Northern Ireland) on 29 January 1944.
Decommissioned 29 June 1945./br>
Scrapped in Canada in November 1946. |
| Noteable events involving Morden include: 1 Sep, 1942
The German submarine U-756 was sunk in the North Atlantic about 440 nautical miles west-south-west of Cape Farewell in position 57º41'N, 31º30'W, by the Canadian corvette HMCS Morden (Lt. J.J. Hodgkinson, RCNR). (see map) 12 May, 1943
HMCS Morden (Lt. J.J. Hodgkinson, RCNR) picks up 40 survivors from the Norwegian merchant Brand that was torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic in position 47º19'N, 24º41'W by the German submarine U-603. 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. |
