HMS Mignonette (K38)

HMS Mignonette 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]

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Mignonette.
HMS Mignotte underway on the Tyne
History
United Kingdom
Name: Mignonette
Ordered: 31 August 1939
Builder: Hall, Russell & Co. Ltd., Aberdeen
Laid down: 15 July 1940
Launched: 28 January 1941
Commissioned: 7 May 1941
Out of service: 1946 - sold
Identification: Pennant number: K38
Fate: sold 1946; sunk November 1948
General characteristics
Class and type: Flower-class corvette (original)
Displacement: 925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 short tons)
Length: 205 ft (62.48 m)o/a
Beam: 33 ft (10.06 m)
Draught: 11.5 ft (3.51 m)
Propulsion:
  • single shaft
  • 2 × fire tube Scotch boilers
  • 1 × 4-cycle triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine
  • 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW)
Speed: 16 knots (29.6 km/h)
Range: 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h)
Complement: 85
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • 1 × SW1C or 2C radar
  • 1 × Type 123A or Type 127DV sonar
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

Background

The ship was commissioned on 31 August 1939 by Hall, Russell & Company from Aberdeen in Scotland.[2]

War service

On 7 February 1943, HMS Mignotte along with HMS Campanula rescued 37 survivors from the merchant Afrika, which was torpedoed by the German submarine U-402. On 15 July 1943 she contributed to the sinking of U-135 alongside HMS Rochester and Balsam. On 21 January 1945 she helped sink U-1199 alongside the destroyer HMS Icarus.[3]

Fate

She was sold in 1946. In 1948, she became the merchant ship Alexandrouplis. That same year, on 30 November 1948, she was lost.[4]

Citations
  1. "Aberdeen Ships - Mignonette". www.aberdeenships.com. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  2. Friedman, Norman s. 339
  3. "HMS Mignonette (K38)". www.uboat.net. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  4. "Flower Class Corvettes from HMS Mallow to HMS Primula". www.worldnavalships.com. Retrieved 2017-03-29.

Sources
  • Friedman, Norman (2008). British Destroyers & Frigates - The Second World War and After. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-015-4.
  • Gardiner, Robert (1987). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
  • Preston, Antony; Raven, Alan (1982). Flower Class Corvettes. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-559-2.
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