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Allied Warships

HMS Clarkia (K 88)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 88 
Built byHarland & Wolff Ltd. (Belfast, Northern Ireland) 
Ordered19 Sep, 1939 
Laid down30 Oct, 1939 
Launched7 Mar, 1940 
Commissioned22 Apr, 1940 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Sold to be broken up for scrap on 30 July 1947.Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Frederick John Gwynn Jones, RNR
4 April 1940 – 30 August 1942

Lt.Cdr. Stanley Darling, RANVR
30 August 1942 – 12 October 1943

A/Lt.Cdr. J.O. Williams, RNR
12 October 1943 – 7 March 1945

Lt. Timothy Walter Beamish Pollock Hamilton, DSC, RNR
7 March 1945 – still in command in April 1945 according to the Navy List

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


Noteable events involving Clarkia include:

26 Jul, 1940
HMS Clarkia (Lt.Cdr. F.J.G. Jones, RNR) picks up 45 survivors from the British passenger ship Accra that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-34 about 320 nautical miles west of Bloody Foreland in position 55º40'N, 16º28'W.

HMS Clarkia also picks up 32 survivors from the British merchant Vinemoor that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-34 about 320 nautical miles west of Bloody Foreland in position 55º43'N, 16º25'W. The Vinemoor sank the next day in position 55°25'N, 16°05'W.

12 Oct, 1940
HMS Clarkia (Lt.Cdr. F.J.G. Jones, RNR) picks up 16 survivors from the Norwegian merchant Brandanger that was torpedoed and sunk, the previous day, south of Iceland in position 57º10'N, 17º42'W by the German submarine U-48.

3 Feb, 1941
The British merchant Empire Citizen is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-107 southwest of Iceland in position 58º12'N, 23º22'W. HMS Clarkia (Lt.Cdr. F.J.G. Jones, RNR) later picks up 5 survivors.

15 Mar, 1942
HMS Clarkia (Lt.Cdr. F.J.G. Jones, RNR) picks up 4 survivors from the British tanker British Resource that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-124 north of Bermuda in position 36º04'N, 65º38'W.

19 Aug, 1942
HMS Clarkia (Lt.Cdr. F.J.G. Jones, RNR) picks up 40 survivors from the British tanker British Consul that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-564 85 nautical miles north-west of Boca Grande, Trinidad in position 11º58'N, 62º38'W.


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