HMS Cowslip (K196)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Cowslip.

HMS Cowslip (K196) was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.^[1][2] The ship spent much of the war in convoy escort and anti-submarine duties during the Battle of the Atlantic.^[3]

HMS Cowslip, underway, being towed in the Second World War

Construction

The ship was ordered 8 April 1940, laid down 16 January 1941, and built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast.^[1][4] She was launched 28 May 1941^[4] and commissioned 9 August 1941.^[1]

Career

On 29 October 1942, Cowslip rescued 50 survivors from the refrigerated cargo ship Corinaldo.^[5] The next day, Cowslip and the Norwegian cargo ship Alaska rescued 85 survivors from the troopship Président Doumer, which had been sunk by U-604.^[2][6]

On 30 September 1942, she rescued 50 survivors from the water from the sunken Empire Avocet.^[7][8]

Cowslip was sold in July 1948, and scrapped at Troon in April 1949.^[1]