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. Christopher Morrison-Payne, RNVR
7 November 1941 - ???

T/Lt. Richard Henry 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

 

Commands listed for HMS Clematis (K 36)

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CommanderFromTo
1Cdr. York McLeod Cleeves, RD, DSC, RNR19 Jun 19407 Nov 1941
2T/Lt. Christopher Morrison-Payne, RNVR7 Nov 1941???

3T/Lt. Richard Henry Farrands, RNR???Apr 1945 ?

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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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