Corvette of the Flower class
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 43 |
| Built by | Harland & Wolff Ltd. (Belfast, Northern Ireland) |
| Ordered | 19 Sep, 1939 |
| Laid down | 18 Jun, 1940 |
| Launched | 3 Oct, 1940 |
| Commissioned | 19 Nov, 1940 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
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| History | Sold on 22 July 1946. and bcame the merchantile Freelock.
Sunk on 1 April 1947.
Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. T.G. Hill, RNR
12 November 1940 – 4 December 1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. Ronald Albert Cherry, RNR
4 December 1940 – 10 July 1943
Lt. Geoffrey Marcus Berlyn, SANF(V)
10 July 1943 – 25 January 1945
T/Lt. W.L. Hancock, SANF(V)
25 January 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List |
| Noteable events involving Freesia include: 12 Dec, 1942
The British merchant Empire Gull is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-177 in the Mozambique Channel west of Maputo, Portuguese East Africa in position 26º15'S, 34º40'E. Later the British destroyer HMS Inconstant (Lt.Cdr. W.S. Clouston, RN) and the British corvette HMS Freesia (Lt. R.A. Cherry, RNR) together pick up 44 survivors. |
