Corvette of the Flower class
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 55 |
| Built by | Harland & Wolff Ltd. (Belfast, Northern Ireland) |
| Ordered | 19 Sep, 1939 |
| Laid down | 30 Oct, 1939 |
| Launched | 24 Feb, 1940 |
| Commissioned | 8 Apr, 1940 |
| End service | 15 Mar, 1942 |
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| History | Ordered for French Navy but served in the Royal Navy as HMS Periwinkle.
Transferred to the USN on 15 March 1942 and commissioned as USS Restless on the same day.
Decommissioned by the USN at Chatham, England on 20 August 1945.
Returned to the RN on 26 August 1945.
Sold into merchantile service in 1947 as Perilock.
Scrapped at Hong Kong in 1953.
Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. H. Row, RNR
14 March 1940 – 18 September 1940
Lt.Cdr. Peter Graeme MacIver, RNR
18 September 1940 > |
| Career notes | To the United States Navy as USS Restless. |
| Noteable events involving Periwinkle include: 9 Oct, 1940
HMS Periwinkle (Lt.Cdr. P.G. MacIver, RNR) picks up 31 survivors from the British merchant Confield that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-58 about 90 miles west of Barra Head in position 56º48'N, 10º17'W. 2 Jun, 1941
The German submarine U-147 torpedoed and sank the Belgian merchant ship Mokambo in position 56º38'N 10º24'W. In the followup attack by the convoy escort the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Wanderer (Cdr. A.F.St.G. Orpen, RN) and the corvette HMS Periwinkle (Lt.Cdr. P.G. MacIver, RNR) depth charged the U-147 to destruction. (see map) 26 Sep, 1941
HMS Perwinkle (Lt.Cdr. P.G. MacIver, RNR) picks up 40 survivors from the British merchant Avoceta that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-203 in the North Atlantic north of the Azores in position 47º57'N, 24º05'W. |
