Corvette of the Flower class
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 99 |
| Built by | William Simons & Co. Ltd. (Renfrew, Scotland) |
| Ordered | 25 Jul, 1939 |
| Laid down | 20 Sep, 1939 |
| Launched | 10 Apr, 1940 |
| Commissioned | 24 May, 1940 |
| Lost | 9 Nov, 1942 |
| Loss position | 35.49N, 01.05W (See a map) |
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| History | HMS Gardenia (T/Lt. C.J. Jackson, RNR) was sunk off Oran, Algeria in position 35º49'N, 01º05'W in a collision with the minesweeping trawler HMS Fluellen.
Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. T.A.O. Ellis, RNR
8 April 1940 – 4 December 1940
Lt.Cdr. Harold Hill, RNR
4 December 1940 – February 1942
RD awarded on ???
T/Lt. C.J. Jackson, RNR
February 1942 - 9 November 1942 |
| Noteable events involving Gardenia include: 16 Jul, 1940
The British tanker Scottish Minstrel is torpedoed and damaged about 130 nautical miles north-west of Bloody Foreland in position 56º10'N, 10º20'W by the German submarine U-61.
HMS Gardenia (Lt.Cdr. T.A.O. Ellis, RNR) later picks up 32 survivors. The damaged tanker sinks the next day. 23 Sep, 1941
HMS Gardenia (Lt.Cdr. H. Hill, RNR) picks up 11 survivors from the British merchant Niceto de Larrinaga that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day by the German submarine U-103 south-west of the Canary Islands in position 27º32'N, 24º26'W. |
