HMS Mignonette (K38)
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 HMS Mignotte underway on the Tyne | |
| History | |
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 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 & 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) |
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| Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
| Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
| Complement | 85 |
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HMS Mignonette was a Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She served as an escort ship in the Battle of the Atlantic.[1]
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 ship Afrika, which had been 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]
