Navy | The Royal Navy |
Type | Corvette |
Class | Flower |
Pennant | K 03 |
Built by | John Crown & Sons Ltd. (Sunderland, U.K) : N.E. Marine |
Ordered | 31 Aug 1939 |
Laid down | 23 Oct 1939 |
Launched | 5 Jun 1940 |
Commissioned | 12 Sep 1940 |
End service | 24 Mar 1942 |
History | Ordered for French Navy but taken over with the fall of France. |
Career notes | To the United States Navy as USS Surprise |
Commands listed for HMS Heliotrope (K 03)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Lt.Cdr. John Jackson, RNR | 8 Aug 1940 | 24 Mar 1942 |
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Notable events involving Heliotrope include:
18 Sep 1940
HMS H 50 (Lt. A.R. Cheyne, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Tobermory with HMS Primula (Lt.Cdr. K.M. Drake, RNR) and HMS Heliotrope (Lt.Cdr. J. Jackson, RNR). (1)
22 Sep 1940
HMS H 50 (Lt. G.V. Prowse, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Tobermory with HMS Honeysuckle (Lt. G.W. Gregorie, RNR) and HMS Heliotrope (Lt.Cdr. J. Jackson, RNR). (1)
23 Sep 1940
HMS H 50 (Lt. G.V. Prowse, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Tobermory with HMS Asphodel (Lt.Cdr.(Retd.) K.W. Stewart, RN) and HMS Heliotrope (Lt.Cdr. J. Jackson, RNR). (1)
25 Sep 1940
HMS H 50 (Lt. A.R. Cheyne, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Tobermory with HMS Heliotrope (Lt.Cdr. J. Jackson, RNR) and HMS Philante (Capt.(Retd.) H.S. Bowlby, RN). (1)
30 Nov 1940
HMS H 32 (Lt. R.L. Alexander, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with HMS Clarkia (Lt.Cdr. F.J.G. Jones, RNR) and HMS Heliotrope (Lt.Cdr. J. Jackson, RNR). (2)
1 Dec 1940
HMS Heliotrope (Lt.Cdr. J. Jackson, RNR) picks up 32 survivors from the British tanker Appalachee that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-101 about 340 nautical miles west of Bloody Foreland in position 54°30'N, 20°00'W.
Sources
- ADM 173/16332
- ADM 173/16290
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.