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Allied Warships

HMCS Mayflower (K 191)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 191 
Built byCanadian Vickers Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) 
Ordered20 Jan, 1940 
Laid down20 Feb, 1940 
Launched3 Jul, 1940 
Commissioned15 May, 1941 
End service31 May, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryFo'c's'le extended at Norfolk (Virginia, U.S.A.) on 14 February 1944.

Decommissioned and returned to the Royal Navy on 31 May 1945.
Scrapped at Inverkeithing on 20 September 1949. 

Former nameHMS Mayflower

Noteable events involving Mayflower include:

2 Oct, 1941
HMCS Mayflower (A/Lt.Cdr. G.H. Stephen, RCNR) picks up 35 survivors from the British tanker San Florentino that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-94 in the North Atlantic in position 52º50'N, 34º40'W.

9 Feb, 1942
HMCS Mayflower (A/Lt.Cdr. G.H. Stephen, RCNR) completed a refit at Charleston, South Carolina, USA.

11 Jan, 1943
HMCS Mayflower (A/Lt.Cdr. V. Browne, RCNVR) completed a refit at Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada.


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