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Allied Warships

HMS Mallow (K 81)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 81 
Built byHarland & Wolff Ltd. (Belfast, Northern Ireland) 
Ordered19 Sep, 1939 
Laid down14 Nov, 1939 
Launched22 May, 1940 
Commissioned2 Jul, 1940 
End service11 Jan, 1944 
Loss position
 
HistoryTransferred to the Yugoslavian Navy on 11 January 1944 and renamed Nada.
Renamed Partizanka in 1948.
Returned in 1948.
Transferred to the Egyptian Navy and renamed El Sudan in 1948. 
Career notesTo the Yogoslavian Navy as Nada

Noteable events involving Mallow include:

17 Nov, 1940
HMS Mallow (Lt.Cdr. W.B. Piggott, RNR) picks up 18 survivors from the British merchant Saint Germain that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-137 north-north-west of Tory Island in position 55º40'N, 08º40'W.

19 Oct, 1941
The German submarine U-204 was sunk near Tangier, in position 35º46'N, 06º02'W, by depth charges from the British corvette HMS Mallow (Cdr. W.B. Piggot, OBE, RNR) and the British sloop HMS Rochester (Cdr. C.B. Allen, RN). (see map)


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