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Allied Warships

HMS Columbine (K 94)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 94 
Built byCharles Hill & Sons Ltd. (Bristol, U.K.) : Richardson, Westgarth & Clark 
Ordered25 Jul, 1939 
Laid down3 Nov, 1939 
Launched13 Aug, 1940 
Commissioned9 Nov, 1940 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Sold on 9 august 1946.
Became the merchantile Leif Welding in 1949.
Scrapped at Grimstad in 1966.

Commanding Officers:
Lt. Louis Alan Sayers, RNR
??? – 10 April 1941

T/Lt. S.J. Lavis, RNR
10 April 1941 – February 1942

T/Lt. A.L. Turner, RNR
February 1942 – 23 March 1943

T/A/Lt.Cdr. W.J. Griffiths, RNR
23 March 1943 – 9 November 1943

T/Lt. J.C. Grose, RNR
9 November 1943 – still in command in April 1945 according to the Navy List

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


Noteable events involving Columbine include:

20 May, 1941
HMS Columbine (T/Lt. S.J. Lavis, RNR) picks up survivors from the Dutch tanker Marisa that was sunk on 17 May 1941 east of Freetown in position 06º10'N, 18º09'W by the German submarine U-107.



Books dealing with this subject include:

With A Flower Upon The Ocean, Edward T Wilkins, 2004


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