HMS Spiraea (K08)
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HMS Spiraea, 25 April 1942
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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 |
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Class & 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 Alisma.
Fate
Spiraea was sold to Greece in August 1945 and became the Thessaloniki.
References
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- Helgason Helgason (2009), HMS Spiraea (K 08): Corvette of the Flower class, uboat.net. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
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