Allied Warships

HMS Balsam (K 72)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 72 
Built byGeorge Brown & Co. (Greenock, Scotland): Clark 
Ordered29 Oct 1940 
Laid down16 Apr 1941 
Launched30 May 1942 
Commissioned28 Nov 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

She was scrapped at Newport starting on 20 April 1947.

Commanding Officers:
Lt. James Ernest Lewis Peters, RNVR
17 August 1942 – 14 April 1944
DSC awarded on 9 November 1943

T/A/Lt.Cdr. Sir Joseph Herbert Spens Fayrer, DSC, RNVR
14 April 1944 – 15 January 1945

T/Lt. Leslie Henry Harvey, RNR
15 January 1945 – still in command in April 1945 according to the Navy List

HMS Balsam is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy List

 
Former nameHMS Chelmer

Commands listed for HMS Balsam (K 72)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt. James Ernest Lewis Peters, RNR17 Aug 194214 Apr 1944
2T/A/Lt.Cdr. Sir Joseph Herbert Spence Fayrer, DSC, RNVR14 Apr 194415 Jan 1945
3T/Lt. Leslie Henry Harvey, RNR15 Jan 1945Apr 1945 ?

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Noteable events involving Balsam include:


15 Jul 1943
The German submarine U-135 was sunk in the Atlantic, in position 28º20'N, 13º17'W, by the British sloop HMS Rochester and the British corvettes HMS Mignonette and HMS Balsam and an American Catalina aircraft (VP-92). (see map)

23 Dec 1944
HMS Balsam (Lt.Cdr. Sir J.H.S. Fayer, DSC, RNVR) picks up 8 survivors from the British merchant Dumfries that is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-322 south of St.Catherine´s Point, Isle of Wight in position 50º23'N, 01º43'W.

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