Corvette of the Flower class
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 211 |
| Built by | Smiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) |
| Ordered | 3 Aug, 1940 |
| Laid down | 19 May, 1941 |
| Launched | 22 Aug, 1941 |
| Commissioned | 2 Nov, 1941 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
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| History | Sold in 1947 and became a weather ship.
Scrapped at Dublin in May 1962.
Commanding Officers:
Lt. Harold Geeves Chesterman, RNR
20 October 1941 – 21 September 1943
DSC awarded on 2 June 1943
A/Lt.Cdr. Ernest Jack Powell, RNR
21 September 1943 – still listed in the October 1945 Navy List |
| Former name | HMS Zenobia |
| Noteable events involving Snowflake include: 5 Apr, 1943
HMS Snowflake (Lt. H.G. Chesterman, RNR) picks up 62 survivors from the British tanker British Ardour that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-706 in the North Atlantic in position 58º08'N, 34º04'W. 6 May, 1943
The German submarine U-125 was sunk east of Newfoundland, in position 52º30'N, 45º20'W, by ramming by the British destroyer HMS Oribi (Lt.Cdr. J.C.A. Ingram, RN) and gunfire from the British corvette HMS Snowflake (Lt. H.G. Chesterman, RNR). (see map) |
