Corvette of the Flower class
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 207 |
| Built by | Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. (Paisley, Scotland) |
| Ordered | 28 Jun, 1940 |
| Laid down | 1 Oct, 1940 |
| Launched | 17 Apr, 1941 |
| Commissioned | 31 Jul, 1941 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
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| History | Sold in 1947.
Became the merchantile W.R. Strang in 1948.
Sold 1948 to Union Whaling.
Refitted as bouy-boat.
Later refitted as whaler.
Sold in 1957 to Taiyo Gyogyo KK, Tokyo and renamed Toshi Maru.
Diesel engines were installed in 1957.
Scrapped in Japan in 1965.
Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. James Edward Rickards Wilford, RNR
27 May 1941 - ???
Lt. G.W. McGuiness, RNR
??? – 18 September 1944
Lt. O.R.B. Stephen, SANF(V)
18 September 1944 – June 1945
Lt. Frederick Howard Layte, RNR
June 1945 – still listed in the October 1945 Navy List |
| Noteable events involving Monkshood include: 15 Jul, 1944
The British merchant Tanda is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-181 northwest of Mangalore in the Arabian Sea in position 13º22'N, 74º09'E. HMIS Bihar (T/Lt. W.L. Deeble, DSC, RINR) and HMS Monkshood (Lt. G.W. McGuinness, RNR) together pick up 197 survivors. |
