Allied Warships

HMS Kingcup (K 33)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 33 
Built byHarland & Wolff Ltd. (Belfast, Northern Ireland) 
Ordered19 Sep 1939 
Laid down19 Jul 1940 
Launched31 Oct 1940 
Commissioned30 Dec 1940 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Sold on 31 July 1946.
Became the merchantile Rubis in 1947.
Renamed Seislim in 1954.
Scrapped at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Holland in 1959.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Robert Arthur Dillon Cambridge, DSC, RNR
12 November 1940 – 3 June 1943

T/A/Lt.Cdr. William Thomason Hodson, DSC, RNVR
3 June 1943 – 21 April 1944

T/A/Lt.Cdr. Henry Edward Petre, RNR
21 April 1944 – 25 September 1944

T/Lt. Thomas Cooper, DSC, RNR
25 September 1944 – still in command in April 1945 according to the Navy List

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

 

Commands listed for HMS Kingcup (K 33)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt. Robert Arthur Dillon Cambridge, RNR12 Nov 19403 Jun 1943
2T/A/Lt.Cdr. William Thomason Hodson, RNVR3 Jun 194321 Apr 1944
3T/A/Lt.Cdr. Henry Edward Petre, RNR21 Apr 194425 Sep 1944
4T/Lt. Thomas Cooper, DSC, RNR25 Sep 1944Apr 1945 ?

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Noteable events involving Kingcup include:


11 Dec 1941
HMS Kingcup (Lt.Cdr. R.A.D. Cambridge, DSC, RNR) picks up 33 survivors from the British merchant Kirnwood and 56 survivors from the British merchant Kurdistan that were torpedoed and sunk the previous day by the German submarine U-130 west of Rockall in position 56º57'N, 16º35'W.

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