HMS Meadowsweet (K144) was a Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She served as an ocean escort in the Battle of the Atlantic.[1][2]
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| Name | HMS Meadowsweet |
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| Ordered | 25 July 1939 |
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| Builder | Charles Hill & Sons, Bristol, England |
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| Laid down | 12 August 1941 |
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| Launched | 28 March 1942 |
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| Commissioned | 8 July 1942 |
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| Out of service | 31 March 1951 - sold |
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| Identification | Pennant number: K144 |
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| Fate | Sold 1951 |
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| Class & type | Flower-class corvette (original) |
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| Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 short tons) |
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| Length | 205 ft (62.48 m)o/a |
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| Beam | 33 ft (10.06 m) |
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| Draught | 11.5 ft (3.51 m) |
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| Propulsion |
- single shaft
- 2 × fire tube Scotch boilers
- 1 × 4-cycle triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine
- 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW)
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| Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
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| Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
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| Complement | 85 |
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- 1 × SW1C or 2C radar
- 1 × Type 123A or Type 127DV sonar
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| Armament |
- 1 × BL 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mk.IX single gun
- 2 x double Lewis machine gun
- 2 × twin Vickers machine gun
- 2 × Mk.II depth charge throwers
- 2 × Depth charge rails with 40 depth charges
- initially with minesweeper equipment, later removed
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