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Allied Warships

HMS Linaria (K 282)

Corvette of the Flower (rev.) class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower (rev.) 
PennantK 282 
Built byMidland Shipyards Ltd. (Midland. Ontario, Canada) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched18 Nov, 1942 
Commissioned22 Jun, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Transferred to the Royal Navy under lend-lease.
Returned to the United States Navy on 27 July 1946.

Commanding Officers:
T/A/Lt.Cdr. R.H. Jameson, RNR
22 June 1943 – July 1945

T/Lt.Cdr. E.E. Roberts, RNR
July 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

Former nameUSS Clash

Noteable events involving Linaria include:

27 Oct, 1944
HMS Linaria (Lt.Cdr. R.H. Jameson, RNR) picks up 31 survivors off Europa Island in the Mozambique Channel. These survivors were from the British merchant Radbury that was torpedoed and sunk on 13 August 1944 west of Madagascar in position 24º20'S, 41º45'E by the German submarine U-862.


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