 HMS Spiraea, 25 April 1942
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Spiraea |
| Ordered | 21 September 1939 |
| Builder | Harland and Wolff[1] (A&J Inglis) |
| Yard number | 1056[1] |
| Laid down | 31 May 1940 |
| Launched | 31 October 1940 |
| Completed | 27 February 1941[1] |
| Commissioned | 27 February 1941 |
| Decommissioned | 1945 |
| Identification | Pennant number: K08 |
| Fate | Sold to Greece, renamed Thessaloniki |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Flower-class corvette |
| Displacement | 925 long tons |
| Length | 205 ft (62 m) o/a |
| Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
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| Speed | 16 kn (30 km/h) |
| Range | 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
| Complement | 85 |
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HMS Spiraea was a Flower-class corvette of the British Royal Navy. Named for a genus of shrub, Spiraea served in the Second World War as an escort.
The corvette was launched on 31 October 1940 at Glasgow, Scotland and entered nominal service on 27 February 1941. In 1943, she recovered the survivors of two separate sinkings (the merchant vessels Oporto and Fort Howe), of which the Fort Howe effort was in conjunction with HMS Alisma.
Fate
Spiraea was sold to Greece in August 1945 and became the Thessaloniki.
Citations
- ^ a b c McCluskie, Tom (2013). The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff. Stroud: The History Press. p. 148. ISBN 9780752488615.
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Helgason Helgason (2009), HMS Spiraea (K 08): Corvette of the Flower class, uboat.net. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
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