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Allied Warships

FFL Commandant Detroyat (K 183)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Free French Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 183 
Built byHall, Russell & Co. Ltd. (Aberdeen, Scotland) 
Ordered25 Jul, 1939 
Laid down19 Sep, 1940 
Launched9 Jun, 1941 
Commissioned16 Sep, 1941 
End service, 1947 
Loss position
 
HistoryTransferred to the free French Navy upon completion on 16 September 1941.
Returned to the Royal Navy in 1947 and scrapped at Troon in February 1948. 
Former nameHMS Coriander

Noteable events involving Commandant Detroyat include:

9 Jul, 1943
Commandant Detroyat picks up 239 survivors from the British passenger ship De la Salle and 76 survivors from the British merchant Manchester Citizen that were torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-508 60 nautical miles south-west of Lagos in the Gulf of Benin in position 05º50'N, 02º22'E.


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