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HMS Coreopsis (K32)

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History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Coreopsis
NamesakeCoreopsis
Ordered25 July 1939
BuilderA. & J. Inglis Ltd, Glasgow
Laid down19 September 1939
Launched23 April 1940
Commissioned17 August 1940
Decommissioned10 November 1943
IdentificationPennant number: K32
FateTransferred to Royal Hellenic Navy
Kingdom of Greece
NameKriezis
NamesakeAntonios Kriezis
Acquired10 November 1943
Commissioned11 June 1942
Decommissioned1 June 1952
IdentificationPennant number: K32
FateReturned to Royal Navy: sold and broken-up at Sunderland on 22 July 1952
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeFlower-class corvette
Displacement925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 short tons)
Length205 ft (62.48 m)o/a
Beam33 ft 2 in (10.11 m)
Draught13 ft 7 in (4.14 m)
Propulsion
  • single shaft
  • 2 × fire tube Scotch boilers
  • 1 × 4-cycle triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine
  • 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW)
Speed16.5 knots (30.6 km/h)
Range3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h)
Complement85
Sensors and
processing systems
  • 1 × SW1C or 2C radar
  • 1 × Type 123A or Type 127DV sonar
Armament
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Coreopsis.

HMS Coreopsis was a Flower-class corvette, built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War which served in the Battle of the Atlantic. In 1943, she was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy as RHNS Kriezis (Greek: ΒΠ Κριεζής) and participated in the 1944 Invasion of Normandy. Shortly before she was scrapped, she took part in the British war film, The Cruel Sea.

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Flower-class corvette

Flower-class corvette

The Flower-class corvette was a British class of 294 corvettes used during World War II by the Allied navies particularly as anti-submarine convoy escorts in the Battle of the Atlantic. Royal Navy ships of this class were named after flowers.

Corvette

Corvette

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Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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Battle of the Atlantic

Battle of the Atlantic

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Greek language

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy, southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems.

War film

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The Cruel Sea (1953 film)

The Cruel Sea (1953 film)

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Service

Coreopsis was built at A. & J. Inglis Ltd in Glasgow as part of the 1939 War Emergency Programme for the Royal Navy. One of the early Flower-class corvettes, she was ordered on 25 July 1939, and laid down on 19 September. She was launched on 23 April 1940 and commissioned on 17 August.

Royal Navy

In Royal Navy service, Coreopsis was employed on convoy escort duty in the Atlantic. On 20 October 1940, she rescued 33 survivors from the British cargo ship MV La Estancia sunk by the German submarine U-47 south of Iceland. On 16 November 1942, she rescued 169 survivors from the British merchant ship SS Clan MacTaggart that was sunk by U-92 off Cadiz. On 5 March 1943, she picked up survivors from the British merchant ships SS Fidra, SS Ger-y-Bryn and SS Trefusis which had been sunk by U-130 northwest of Lisbon.[2]

Royal Hellenic Navy

For other ships with the same name, see Greek ship Kriezis.

Coreopsis was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy on 1 November 1943, one of several British escort vessels transferred to Greece after April 1941. Renamed Kriezis (Greek: Κριεζής, after the naval hero Antonios Kriezis) but retaining her K32 pennant number, she served as a convoy escort out of Liverpool and on 13 June 1944, escorted Convoy ECM6 which was part of Operation Neptune, the maritime element of the Normandy Landings. She joined the British Mediterranean Fleet in October 1944.[3] She remained with the Greek navy after the war and was finally returned to the Royal Navy on 1 June 1952.[4]

Filming and disposal

While awaiting disposal at Malta in 1952, Coreopsis was acquired by Ealing Studios for the film The Cruel Sea, in which she took the part of the fictional Flower-class corvette, HMS Compass Rose. During filming at Plymouth, she collided with the destroyer HMS Camperdown causing some damage to the latter.[5] In the film, she wore the pennant number K49, actually the number of HMS Crocus. She finally arrived at the breaker's yard of Thomas Young & Sons in Sunderland on 22 July 1952 where she was scrapped.[4]

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A & J Inglis, Ltd, was a shipbuilding firm founded by Anthony Inglis and his brother John, engineers and shipbuilders in Glasgow, Scotland in 1862. The firm built over 500 ships in a period of just over 100 years. Their Pointhouse Shipyard was at the confluence of the rivers Clyde and Kelvin. They constructed a wide range of ships, including Clyde steamers, paddle steamers and small ocean liners. In wartime, they built small warships, and in the period after World War II, they built a number of whalers.

Glasgow

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Keel laying

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German submarine U-47 (1938)

German submarine U-47 (1938)

German submarine U-47 was a Type VIIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 25 February 1937 at Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel as yard number 582 and went into service on 17 December 1938 under the command of Günther Prien.

Iceland

Iceland

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German submarine U-92 (1942)

German submarine U-92 (1942)

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German submarine U-130 (1941)

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Greek ship Kriezis

Greek ship Kriezis

At least two ships of the Hellenic Navy have borne the name Kriezis after Greek naval hero Antonios Kriezis:Greek corvette Kriezis, a Flower-class corvette launched in 1941 as HMS Coreopsis and transferred to Greece and renamed in 1943. She was scrapped in 1952. Greek destroyer Kriezis (D217), a Gearing-class destroyer launched in 1945 as USS Corry she was transferred to Greece in 1981 and renamed. She was scrapped in 2002.

Greek language

Greek language

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Antonios Kriezis

Antonios Kriezis

Antonios Kriezis was a captain of the Hellenic navy during the Greek War of Independence and a Prime Minister of Greece from 1849 to 1854.

Ealing Studios

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Source: "HMS Coreopsis (K32)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, December 19th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Coreopsis_(K32).

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References
  1. ^ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946 (1980) ISBN 0-85177-146-7 p. 62
  2. ^ Helgason, Guðmundur. "Allied Warships – HMS Coreopsis (K 32)". www.uboat.net. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  3. ^ Brown, David (2002). The Royal Navy and the Mediterranean: Vol.I: September 1939 – October 1940. Routledge. p. 155. ISBN 978-0714651798.
  4. ^ a b Helgason, Guðmundur. "Allied Warships – RHS Kriezis (K 32)". www.uboat.net. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  5. ^ Gaffney, Freddie. "Cruel Sea, The (1952)". www.screenonline.org.uk. British Film Institute. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
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