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Allied Warships

HMS Clematis (K 36)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 36 
Built byCharles Hill & Sons Ltd. (Bristol, U.K.) : Richardson, Westgarth & Clark 
Ordered25 Jul, 1939 
Laid down11 Oct, 1939 
Launched22 Apr, 1940 
Commissioned27 Jul, 1940 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Scrapped at Charlestown in September 1949.

Commanding Officers:
Cdr. York McLeod Cleeves, DSC, RD, RNR
19 June 1940 – 7 November 1941
DSO awarded on 16 August 1940

T/Lt. C. Morrison-Payne, RNVR
7 November 1941 - ???

T/Lt. R.H. Farrands, DSC, RNR
??? – still in command in April 1945 according to the Navy List

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


Noteable events involving Clematis include:

29 Aug, 1940
HMS Clematis (Cdr Y.M. Cleeves, DSO, DSC, RNR) picks up 17 survivors from the British merchant Dalblair that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-100 148 nautival miles north-west of Bloody Foreland in position 56º06'N, 13º33'W.

23 Oct, 1940
HMS Clematis (Cdr Y.M. Cleeves, DSO, DSC, RNR) picks up 1 survivor from the British merchant Fiscus that was torpedoed and sunk on 18 October 1940 by the German submarine U-99 east of Rockall in position 57º29'N, 11º10'W.

Clematis also picks up 21 survivors from the Norwegian merchant Snefjeld that was torpedoed and sunk on 19 October 1940 by U-99 east of Rockall in position 57º28'N, 11º10'W.


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