HMS Picotee (K63)
![]() HMS Picotee in July 1941
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Name | HMS Picotee |
Builder | Harland and Wolff |
Yard number | 1069[1] |
Laid down | 21 March 1940 |
Launched | 19 July 1940 |
Completed | 5 September 1940[1] |
Commissioned | 5 September 1940 |
Identification | Pennant number: K63 |
Fate | Sunk 12 August 1941 by U-568 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette |
Complement | 66 |
HMS Picotee was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy. She was built at Harland and Wolff, launched on 21 March 1940 and completed on 5 September 1940.[1] Under the command of Lieutenant R.A. Harrison, she was tasked to convoy escort operations in the North Atlantic. She was torpedoed and sunk on the morning of 12 August 1941 by U-568. There were no survivors.
References[]
- Official Website
- HMS Picotee on the Arnold Hague database at convoyweb.org.uk.
- BBC Peoples War – History of H.M.S Picotee: K63
Categories:
- Flower-class corvettes of the Royal Navy
- Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II
- World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
- Maritime incidents in August 1941
- 1940 ships
- Ships lost with all hands
- Ships built by Harland and Wolff