Navy | The Royal Navy |
Type | Corvette |
Class | Flower (rev.) |
Pennant | K 283 |
Built by | Midland Shipyards Ltd. (Midland. Ontario, Canada) |
Ordered | 6 Dec 1941 |
Laid down | |
Launched | 24 Mar 1943 |
Commissioned | |
End service | |
History | Transferred to the Royal Navy under lend-lease. |
Former name | USS Vitality |
Commands listed for HMS Willowherb (K 283)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Lt. Arthur Hague, RNR | 30 Aug 1943 | 21 Sep 1944 |
2 | T/A/Lt.Cdr. Clement Archibalt Shillan, RNVR | 21 Sep 1944 | 30 Sep 1945 |
3 | T/Lt. Rowland Fawcus Merz, RNVR | 30 Sep 1945 |
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Notable events involving Willowherb include:
22 Mar 1945
HMS Vampire (Lt. C.W. Taylor, RNR) conducted A/S exercises off Gibraltar with aircraft and later with HMS Bergamot (A/Lt.Cdr. W. McInnes, RNR) and HMS Willowherb (T/A/Lt.Cdr. C.A. Shillan, RNVR). (1)
Sources
- ADM 173/20231
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.