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Re: R.N. Corvette - HMS AZALEA (Lt.Cdr Geddis)
Posted by: David H ()
Date: September 06, 2005 06:48PM

Richard
I cannot give full details of her career, but can say that she was completed for service in January 1941 and seems to have spent most of her career acting as a convoy escort, either across the Atlantic or on the UK-Gibraltar run. In 1944 she was being employed in escorting convoys through the English Channel. This included acting as one of the escorts to the US LSTs involved in Operation Tiger. For details of that incident, see:
[www.mikekemble.com]

She later took part in the D-Day landings.

She was sold out of service (to Brazilian owners?) on 5 April 1946 and was converted to a merchant ship and renamed "Norte". She foundered 19 January 1955 off Cape Santa Marta, Brazil following a collision.


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R.N. Corvette - HMS AZALEA (Lt.Cdr Geddis) Richard Frank Rigby 09/05/2005 07:43PM
Re: R.N. Corvette - HMS AZALEA (Lt.Cdr Geddis) David H 09/06/2005 06:48PM
Re: R.N. Corvette - HMS AZALEA (Lt.Cdr Geddis) Richard Frank Rigby 09/06/2005 08:32PM
Re: R.N. Corvette - HMS AZALEA (Lt.Cdr Geddis) Mark Walters 09/09/2005 09:15AM
Re: R.N. Corvette - HMS AZALEA (Lt.Cdr Geddis) Mark Walters 09/25/2005 03:37PM
Re: R.N. Corvette - HMS AZALEA (Lt.Cdr Geddis) Roger 09/09/2005 10:34PM
Re: R.N. Corvette - HMS AZALEA (Lt.Cdr Geddis) ted else 06/06/2006 11:38AM


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