HMCS Fennel
HMCS Fennel, sometime between 1943–45
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Fennel |
Namesake | Fennel |
Ordered | 22 January 1940 |
Builder | Sorel |
Laid down | 29 March 1940 |
Launched | 20 August 1940 |
Commissioned | 16 January 1941 |
Out of service | 15 May 1941 – loaned to Canada |
Identification | Pennant number: K194 |
Fate | Loaned to Canada 1941; returned 1945; sold 1946 |
Canada | |
Name | Fennel |
Acquired | loaned from Royal Navy |
Commissioned | 15 May 1941 |
Out of service | 12 June 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K194 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1941–45[1] |
Fate | Returned to the Royal Navy 12 June 1945. |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette (original)[2] |
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 |
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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 |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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HMCS Fennel was a Flower-class corvette that served primarily with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. Originally commissioned into the Royal Navy, she served as an ocean escort in the Battle of the Atlantic.
Background
Flower-class corvettes like Fennel serving with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War were different from earlier and more traditional sail-driven corvettes.
Construction
Fennel was ordered by the Royal Navy on 22 January 1940 as part of the 1939–1940 Flower-class building program. She was laid down 29 March 1940 by
Fennel had four major refits during her career as a warship. The first took place at
War service
After completing at Greenock, Fennel was sent to Tobermory, the site of the ocean escort training facilities, to work up. Upon completion, she was assigned to Western Approaches Command until June 1941 when she was reassigned to Newfoundland Command. This was after being loaned to Canada in May 1941.[10]
Joining Newfoundland Command in June, Fennel was assigned to escort group 22N until September 1941 and then group N11 from December 1941 until March 1942 as an ocean escort. Beginning in April 1942 she had a brief spell as a member of
In June 1943, Fennel joined MOEF group C-2 for one escort assignment before heading off for a refit. Upon completion of workups, she returned to C-2. She remained with this group until December 1944.
On 6 March 1944, after unsuccessful attempts at towing the boat to port
In December 1944, Fennel transferred to MOEF escort group C-1. She remained with that group for the rest of the war. On 12 June 1945, Fennel was
Post-war service
After lay up, Fennel was sold for mercantile conversion in 1946. In 1948 she was registered under a Norwegian flag as Milliam Kihl.[10] She was rebuilt as buoy-boat in October 1948. She was refitted as whaler in 1951 in Kiel, West Germany. Laid up in 1960/1961, her last drifting season was in 1964/1965. She was laid up again in Sandefjord and sold to Norwegian shipbreakers in Grimstad in 1966.[9][10]
Notes
- ^ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
- ^ Lenton, H.T.; Colledge, J.J (1968). British and Dominion Warships of World War II. Doubleday & Company. pp. 201, 212.
- ^ Ossian, Robert. "Complete List of Sailing Vessels". The Pirate King. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ Fitzsimons, Bernard, ed. (1978). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons & Warfare. Vol. 11. London: Phoebus. pp. 1137–1142.
- ISBN 0-517-67963-9.
- ISBN 0-8117-3275-4.
- ISBN 0-87021-913-8.
- ISBN 0-87021-450-0.
- ^ a b c "HMCS Fennel (K 194)". Uboat.net. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
- ^ ISBN 0-00216-856-1.
- ISBN 0-92027-783-7.
- ISBN 0-7710-3269-2.
External links
- Hazegray. "Flower Class". Canadian Navy of Yesterday and Today. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
- Ready, Aye, Ready. "HMCS Fennel". Retrieved 10 August 2013.
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