HMS Wallflower K44


Crew List

Jack Belcher


Crew List
H.M.S. Wallflower was one of several 'flower' class Corvettes allocated for purchase by the French Navy. She was ordered from Smith's Dock Company Limited of Middlesborough on 31st August 1939. The order was taken over by the Royal Navy on July 14th 1940 after the fall of France.

She was laid down on July 23rd and launched on November 14th 1940. She was completed on March 7th 1941. Completed working up trials between March 16th and April 2nd 1941.

Convoys

* Sunk U523
** VE Day
SG = UK Coastal
ON = UK to Halifax
OG = UK to Gibraltar
JW = Loch Ewe to - Kola Fjord
OS = UK to Freetown
HX = Halifax to UK
SL = Sierra Leone to - UK
RS = Kola Fjiord to - Loch Ewe
OB = Liverpool to North - America
HG = Gibraltar to UK
ST = Freetown to Takordi
EWL= UK Coastal
KMS = UK to Mediterranean (Slow-joined with OS of Gibralter)

Shirley Fieldens HMS Wallflower Web site.

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