![]() HMS Camellia with a convoy, 23 September 1943
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Name | HMS Camellia |
Builder | Harland and Wolff[1] |
Yard number | 1064[1] |
Laid down | 14 November 1939 |
Launched | 4 May 1940 |
Completed | 18 June 1940[1] |
Commissioned | 18 June 1940 |
Identification | Pennant number: K31 |
Fate | Sold 1948 |
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Name | Hetty W Vinke |
Owner | NV Nederlandse Mij voor de Walvischvaart |
Acquired | 1948 |
Fate | Scrapped 19 September 1965 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette |
HMS Camellia was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy.
She was laid down on 14 November 1939, launched on 4 May 1940, and commissioned on 18 June 1940.
Operational service
[edit]In January 1941 Camelia served as a rescue transport for five crewman of the merchant ship Ringhorn which had gone down in stormy weather. On 4 February 1941 Camellia and the destroyer Harvester picked up 121 survivors from HMS Crispin, sunk by U-107. On 7 March 1941, serving as escorts for convoy OB 293 escort south-east of Iceland, Camellia and her sister ship Arbutus sank the German submarine U-70.
Fate
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In 1948 she was sold for commercial service and renamed Hetty W Vinke.
References
[edit]Publications
[edit]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.