HMS Mignonette (K38)
![]() HMS Mignotte underway on the Tyne
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Name | Mignonette |
Ordered | 31 August 1939 |
Builder | Hall, Russell & Co. Ltd., Aberdeen |
Laid down | 15 July 1940 |
Launched | 28 January 1941 |
Commissioned | 7 May 1941 |
Out of service | 1946 - sold |
Identification | Pennant number: K38 |
Fate | sold 1946; sunk November 1948 |
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Class and type | Flower-class corvette (original) |
Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 short tons) |
Length | 205 ft (62.48 m)o/a |
Beam | 33 ft (10.06 m) |
Draught | 11.5 ft (3.51 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
Complement | 85 |
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HMS Mignonette was a Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She served as an escort ship in the Battle of the Atlantic.[1]
Background[]
The ship was commissioned on 31 August 1939 by Hall, Russell & Company from Aberdeen in Scotland.[2]
War service[]
On 7 February 1943, HMS Mignotte along with rescued 37 survivors from the merchant ship Afrika, which had been torpedoed by the German submarine U-402. On 15 July 1943 she contributed to the sinking of U-135 alongside HMS Rochester and . On 21 January 1945 she helped sink U-1199 alongside the destroyer HMS Icarus.[3]
Fate[]
She was sold in 1946. In 1948, she became the merchant ship Alexandrouplis. That same year, on 30 November 1948, she was lost at sea.[4]
Citations[]
- ^ "Aberdeen Ships - Mignonette". www.aberdeenships.com. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
- ^ Friedman, Norman s. 339
- ^ "HMS Mignonette (K38)". www.uboat.net. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
- ^ "Flower Class Corvettes from HMS Mallow to HMS Primula". www.worldnavalships.com. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
Sources[]
- Friedman, Norman (2008). British Destroyers & Frigates - The Second World War and After. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-015-4.
- Gardiner, Robert (1987). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Preston, Antony; Raven, Alan (1982). Flower Class Corvettes. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-559-2.
Categories:
- 1941 ships
- Flower-class corvettes of the Royal Navy