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British Royal Navy corvette From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMS Jonquil was a Flower-class corvette of the British Royal Navy. The corvette, named after the flower genus Jonquil, served in the Second World War.
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Jonquil |
Ordered | 31 August 1939 |
Builder | Fleming and Ferguson |
Laid down | 27 December 1939 |
Launched | 9 July 1940 |
Commissioned | 20 October 1940 |
Decommissioned | August 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K68 |
Fate | Sold to Greece, renamed Lemnos |
Greece | |
Name | Lemnos |
Renamed | Olympic Rider (1951) |
Fate | Sank in 1955 after a collision. |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette |
Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t) |
Length | 205 ft (62 m) o/a |
Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draught | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
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Speed | 16 kn (30 km/h) |
Range | 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
Complement | 85 |
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Laid down by the company Fleming and Ferguson on 27 December 1939 and launched on 9 July 1940, Jonquil entered service on 20 October and assumed convoy responsibilities the following month.[1] Her first deployment was as an escort for Convoy WS.5A, bound for the West African port of Freetown.[1]
Jonquil survived the war but was relegated to the reserve at Gibraltar from August 1945. Bought by Greece, the corvette was renamed Lemnos and was converted into a merchant vessel. Redesignated Olympic Rider in 1951, Jonquil sank after a collision with Olympic Cruiser in the Antarctic in 1955.[1]
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