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HMS Mignonette (K 38)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 38 
Built byHall, Russell & Co. Ltd. (Aberdeen, Scotland) : N.E. Marine 
Ordered31 Aug, 1939 
Laid down15 Jul, 1940 
Launched28 Jan, 1941 
Commissioned7 May, 1941 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Sold in 1946.
Became the merchantile Alexandrouplis in 1948.
Sunk on 30 November 1948.

Commanding Officer:
Lt. Harold Hinksman Brown, RNR
10 April 1941 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List
DSC awarded on 9 November 1943

HMS Mignonette is not listed in the October 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Mignonette include:

7 Feb, 1943
HMS Campanula (Lt.Cdr. B.A. Rogers, RD, RNR) and HMS Mignonette (Lt H.H. Brown, RNR) together pick up the 37 survivors from the British merchant Afrika that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-402 in the North Atlantic in position 55º16'N, 26º31'W.

HMS Mignonette also picks up 42 survivors from the American merchant the Robert E. Hopkins that was also torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-402 in the North Atlantic in position 55º13'N, 26º22'W.

15 Jul, 1943
The German submarine U-135 was sunk in the Atlantic, in position 28º20'N, 13º17'W, by the British sloop HMS Rochester (Cdr. H.V. King, OBE, RN) and the British corvettes HMS Mignonette (Lt. H.H. Brown, RNR) and HMS Balsam (Lt. J.E.L. Peters, RNVR) and an American Catalina aircraft (VP-92). (see map)

21 Jan, 1945
The German submarine U-1199 was sunk in the English Channel near the Scilly Isles, in position 49º57'N, 05º42'W, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Icarus (Lt.Cdr. D.D. Bone, RN) and the British corvette HMS Mignonette (Lt. H.H. Brown, DSC, RNR). (see map)


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