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HMS Acanthus (K 01)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 01 
Built byAilsa Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. (Troon, Scotland) 
Ordered21 Sep, 1939 
Laid down21 Dec, 1939 
Launched26 May, 1941 
Commissioned 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryTransferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy and renamed Andenes. Sold to Union Whaling in 1956. Towed from Sandefjord to Glasgow, Scotland in June 1956 for convertion to whaler by A & J Inglis, Ltd. Renamed Colin Frye. Sold in 1957 to Taiyo Gyogyo KK,. Tokyo. Renamed Toshi Maru No.2. Scrapped in Japan in 1970. 
Career notesto the Royal Norwegian Navy as HNoMS Andenes

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