| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 108 |
| Built by | John Crown & Sons Ltd. (Sunderland, U.K) : Clark |
| Ordered | 15 Dec 1939 |
| Laid down | 16 Sep 1940 |
| Launched | 20 Jun 1941 |
| Commissioned | 7 Jul 1941 |
| End service | |
| History | HMS Campion is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy List Sold on 20 April 1947 and scrapped at Newport. |
Commands listed for HMS Campion (K 108)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Lt.Cdr. Arthur Johnson, RNVR | 2 Jun 1941 | 30 Aug 1942 |
| 2 | Lt.Cdr. Harold Duncan Horwood, RD, RNR | 30 Aug 1942 | 5 Dec 1942 |
| 3 | Lt.Cdr. Alan Brown, RNR | 5 Dec 1942 | 7 Sep 1943 |
| 4 | T/A/Lt.Cdr. Harold Thomas Stewart Clouston, RNVR | 7 Sep 1943 | 10 Jan 1944 |
| 5 | Lt. Thomas Franklyn Alderman, RNR | 10 Jan 1944 | mid 1945 |
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Noteable events involving Campion include:
22 Aug 1941
At 2331 hours German U-boat U-564 fired a salvo of four torpedoes at the convoy OG-71 west of Aveiro, Portugal and observed four different detonations and three columns of fire, later lifeboats were seen. Suhren thought that he had sunk two ships and damaged two others. However, only two ships were hit and sunk, the British merchant ship Empire Oak and Irish merchant ship Clonlara in position 40°43'N, 11°39'W. The master Joseph Reynolds and 12 crew members from the Clonlara were picked up by the British corvette HMS Campion (Lt.Cdr. A. Johnson, RNVR) and landed at Gibraltar on 24 August. Six crew members were lost. The master Frederick Edward Christian, three crew members and four gunners from the Empire Oak were picked up by the British corvette HMS Campanula (Lt.Cdr. R.V.E. Case, DSC, RNR), later transferred to the British destroyer HMS Velox (Lt.Cdr. E.G. Roper, DSC, RN) and landed at Gibraltar on 25 August. 13 crew members were lost. On 19 August, the Empire Oak had picked up six survivors from Aguila and eleven survivors from Alva. The survivors from Aguila died when this ship was sunk, while the other survivors were also rescued by the corvette.