HMS Marigold (K87)

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Marigold
Ordered: 31 August 1939
Builder: Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen, Scotland
Laid down: 26 January 1940
Launched: 16 November 1940
Commissioned: 28 February 1941
Identification: Pennant number: K87
Fate: Sunk in air attack on 9 December 1942
General characteristics
Class and type: Flower-class corvette
Displacement: 940 tons
Length: 205 ft (62 m)
Beam: 33 ft (10 m)
Draught: 11.5 ft (3.5 m)
Propulsion:
  • Two fire tube boilers
  • one 4-cycle triple-expansion steam engine
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h) at 2,750 hp (2,050 kW)
Range: 3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: 85
Armament:

HMS Marigold was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy.

Career

Marigold was launched from the yards of Hall, Russell & Company, of Aberdeen, Scotland on 16 November 1940. She went on to have an eventful career in a number of the theatres of the Second World War.

Timeline

7 May 1941 she picked up 19 survivors from the torpedoed British merchant SS Ixion 200 miles (320 km) south west of Reykjavík, Iceland.

16 November 1941 she engaged the German submarine U-433 which sank at 2155hrs, after a sustained attack with depth charges and gunfire in the Mediterranean Sea, 25 nmi (46 km) east of Gibraltar. Marigold picked up a number of survivors and took them to Gibraltar.

U-Boat Sunk. The Admiralty is now able to announce that a German U-boat has been destroyed by the corvette H.M.S. Marigold (Lieutenant J. Renwick, R.N.R.) in the area in which H.M.S. Ark Royal had been torpedoed only two days before. As this U-boat was patrolling in the same waters it is practically certain that it was concerned in the attack on H.M.S. Ark Royal. H.M.S. Marigold attacked with depth charges. These forced the U-boat to the surface and it was at once engaged by gun- fire from the corvette. The crew of the U-boat took to the water as their vessel sank. Thirty-four survivors were picked up and are prisoners of war. H.M.S. Marigold was built by Hall, Russell and Co., of Aberdeen. U-BOAT SUNK PROBABLE ATTACKER OF ARK ROYAL.
The Times November 21st 1941

On 15 June 1942 she picked up 41 survivors from the British merchant SS Etrib, 20 survivors from the Norwegian tanker SS Slemdal and 29 survivors from the British merchant SS Thurso that had been torpedoed and sunk by U-552 380 miles (610 km) West of Corunna, Spain. On 13 November 1942 she rescued 81 survivors from the British merchant SS Maron which had been torpedoed and sunk by U-81 off Oran, Algeria.

Sinking

In the late evening of 9 December 1942 HMS Marigold was escorting convoy KMS 3Y, off Algiers, Algeria. The convoy was attacked in the late evening by three S.79 VTBs of the 105º Gruppo AS (105th Torpedo group) led by Captain Urbano Mancini. Marigold was hit by a torpedo at around 1515 hours and sank a short time later with 40 of her crew killed. Lieutenant James Alexander Smith Halcrow, RNR had been her commanding officer since 25 April 1942 and was among those lost.

References

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  1. ↑ "The Type VIIC boat U-433 - German U-boats of WWII". uboat.net. Retrieved 2015-11-01.
  2. ↑ "HMS Marigold (K 87) of the Royal Navy - British Corvette of the Flower class - Allied Warships of WWII". uboat.net. Retrieved 2015-11-01.
  3. ↑ J.N. Houterman. "Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) officers 1939-1945 - H". Unithistories.com. Retrieved 2015-11-01.
  4. ↑ "I am searching for records of my Grandfather Alphonsus". Justanswer.com. Retrieved 2015-11-01.
  5. ↑ "Marigold". Aberdeen Ships. Retrieved 2015-11-01.

Coordinates: 36°50′00″N 03°00′00″E / 36.83333°N 3.00000°E / 36.83333; 3.00000

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