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	NE Diary 1939-45; Warships Launched or Completed by N.E. Shipyards 1939-41
		'HMS Gladiolus' corvette (925t) - On 1st July 1940 the 'Gladiolus' forced 'U 26' to the surface and was, in company with another ship and a Sunderland flying boat, instrumental in forcing the U boat's crew to scuttle their vessel.
		The 'Eridge' was able to repay her debt to 'HMS Aldenham' (the ship that towed her to Alexandria) which was damaged after she ran aground, spares were taken from 'Eridge' (now classed as a hulk) to repair the 'Aldenham'.
		'HMS Pakenham' destroyer (1,540t) - Took part in the action that captured the 'U 559' on 30th October 1942 (see the entry for that date in the diary) - After being damaged during battle with Italian destroyers, she was finally sunk by enemy aircraft off Sicily on 16th April 1943.
	www.bpears.org.uk /NE-Diary/Bck/Warships1.html (2130 words)

	Flower class corvettes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		HMS Gladiolus (K34) was the first of 225 Flower class corvette corvettes built during World War II.
		Gladiolus was involved in the sinking of the Type I U-boat Unterseeboot 26 on July 1, 1940.
		Gladiolus was torpedoed and sunk by Unterseeboot 558 on October 17, 1941, while escorting convoy SC-48.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Flower-class-corvettes (109 words)

	1 July 1940
		The RN corvette HMS Gladiolus had dropped eight depth charges damaging the U-boat in an attack yesterday.
		The master, 24 crewmembers and one gunner were picked up by HMS Vansittart, which had sunk U-102 shortly after the last attack and brought the survivors to Plymouth.
		HMS Calendula escorted the damaged vessel to Falmouth, where they arrived on 5 July.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1940/07/01.htm (767 words)

	Flower Class Corvettes
		HMS Polyanthus sunk by U-boat on 21st September 1943
		HMS Zinnia sunk by U-boat on 23rd August 1941
		HMS Rose lost in collision with frigate Manners on 26th October 1944
	www.naval-art.com /corvettes.htm (963 words)

	Unterseeboot 556 - Wikipedia
		Just four months after Wohlfahrt had sworn to defend Bismarck, May 26, 1941, U-556 was returning from patrol, low on fuel and entirely out of torpedoes, when she was ordered to reconnoiter in the area of Bismarck's most recently reported position.
		Wohlfahrt saw activity on HMS Ark Royal's flight deck, which transpired to be the launching of the second, fatal attack on Bismarck.
		U-556 did not suffer any casualties to her crew during her career until June 27, 1941, when depth charges from the British corvettes HMS Nasturtium, HMS Celandine, and HMS Gladiolus sank her in the North Atlantic south-west of Iceland.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unterseeboot_556 (775 words)

	Battle Cruiser Hood - Remembering Hood: Autobiography of Dick Turner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In due course we were told that at least 3 of the classes were to be drafted to HMS Hood.
		As soon as the course had finished I was ordered to Smith's Docks, Middlesborough where my new ship HMS Gladiolus was due to be launched and commence her sea trials before being commissioned into the Royal Navy.
		Gladiolus was the first of what was to become a famous class of ship - the Flower Class Corvettes.
	www.hmshood.org.uk /crew/bios/turner/DickTurner.html (4255 words)

	Taku to Halifax
		One leading stoker (whose name I cannot recall) started quietly sing "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" and I can say now that this was the turning point for me. I had less fear after this encounter, when previously I had been petrified.
		At 040Gb on 3rd March, HMS Enchantress was sighted.
		Gladiolus and Slavonia, two salvage vessels, joined company at 1 130h.
	www.submariners.co.uk /Dits/Articles/takutohalifax.htm (1250 words)

	Naval Actions and losses 1940
		HMS Ivanhoe struck a mine and sank in the mouth of the River Texel.
		Destroyer HMS Javelin of the 5th destroyer flotilla torpedoed by German destroyers Richard Beitzen, Lody and Galster in the Channel.
		Destroyer HMS Hyperion struck a mine and was torpedoed by the destroyer HMS Janus.
	www.wolftree.freeserve.co.uk /Naval/Naval_Actions_WW240.html (1763 words)

	Naval Actions and losses 1941
		Cruiser HMS Bonaventure torpedoed and sunk by the Italian submarine Ambra.
		Italian submarine Maggiori Baracca sunk by HMS Croome north-east of the Azores.
		Italian submarine Galileao Ferranris sunk by HMS Lamerton and aircraft in the north Atlantic.
	www.wolftree.freeserve.co.uk /Naval/Naval_Actions_WW241Res.html (2010 words)

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		The master and 15 crewmembers were picked up by corvette HMS Gladiolus and landed at Plymouth.
		The ship had been stopped in the North Atlantic by HMS Suffolk and was first sent to Iceland with ten Royal Marines on board and then to Kirkwall.
		HMS Northern Duke rescued 26 crewmembers and the ten marines 1942 - The Canadian Lemuel J. Ritcey Co. fishing vessel Mona Marie (126 GRT), was sunk in the Caribbean Sea, south-west of Barbados, in position 12.22N, 060.10W, by gunfire from U-126, KptLt.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/june/28Jun.txt (1650 words)

	THIS IS FINDON VILLAGE - The Wolf Pack and the Broadwater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		She was commissioned for service under the command of Captain C. de Bell RNR and departed from Halifax on the 15th October 1940 and docked in the Clyde on the 26th October 1940.
		Although under strict orders not to stop to pick up survivors from a stricken cargo ship, because of the additional risk it represented to the entire convoy, some members of HMS BROADWATER's crew appealed to the captain to slow down and pick-up floating survivors who were screaming for their lives in the oily waters.
		The corvette HMS GLADIOLUS was lost with all hands onboard when sunk by either U553 or U-568.....
	www.findonvillage.com /0702_the_wolf_pack_and_the_broadwater.htm (1088 words)

	List of Royal Navy ship names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		HMS Iron Duke - Jellicoe flagship at Jutland
		HMS Thunderbolt - (submarine HMS Thetis renamed and recommissioned following salvage)
		HMS Tututankhamen - (intended for submarine P.311, but the boat was lost before name formally assigned)
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_royal_navy_ship_names.html (116 words)

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		Taking advantage of how close the American destroyers were to the convoy and their lack of Radar the Wolf Pack closed to torpedo range and loosed off salvoes without interruption.
		The Norwegian freighter EVRIKEN and the British tanker WC TEAGLE were both hit as was the corvette HMS GLADIOLUS which was unfortunately lost with all hands.
		Then nerves collapsed and the escort warships began to fire star shell indiscriminately and other illuminating means called SNOWFLAKE which blinded the lookouts, reducing their night vision, and making it consequently much easier for the U-Boat Captains to sight further targets.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /chalkywhite/page5.html (296 words)

	Convoy HX 133 - warsailors.com
		HMS Wolfe joined off Halifax at 17:30 June 16 - left at 14:45 on June 27 in 60 21N 27 29W.
		HMS Fleetwood, HMS Ripley, HMS Celandine, HMS Gladiolus, HMS Niger, HMS Nasturtium, HMS Malcolm, HMS Icarus, HMS Violet, HMS Watchman, HMS Scimitar, HMS Speedwell, HMS Arabis, HMS Haplin?, HMCS Chambly, HMCS Annapolis, and 4 trawlers.
		Also, one enemy U-boat was sunk by HMS Malcolm at 07:30 June 30 in position 59 30N 18 07W".
	www.warsailors.com /convoys/hx133.html (1449 words)

	Montserrat
		Captain Francis Downer, who has died aged 79, was one of those professional officers who bore the brunt of the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War.
		In 1941, Downer was first lieutenant of the Flower-class corvette Nasturtium when she and her sister ships, Gladiolus and Celandine, carried out an unusual attack on a U-boat in defence of homeward-bound convoy HX 133.
		The next year he was appointed sub-lieutenant in the anti-submarine trawler Northern Pride and then served at HMS Paragon, the minesweepers' base at Hartlepool.
	www.axfordsabode.org.uk /rn-ships/rnmonts1.htm (693 words)

	Tp: Atlantic Battle - ForoCoches
		HMS Wolverine, destroyer of the old "V" and "W" class prewar (Courtesy
		HMS Wolverine is credited with sinking "U-47" (now disputed) and "U-76" in Atlantic convoy battles in early 1941.
		After refitting, "U-570" is commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Graph.
	www.forocoches.com /foro/showthread.php?t=142137 (6966 words)

	Convoy HX 126 General Report - warsailors.com
		HMS Malcom, Burnham, Scimitar, Burwell, Mallow, Verbena, Arabis, Heliotrope, Northern Gem and Northern Wave (Westerly rendezvous).
		Also, HMS Keppel, Sabre, Lincoln, Dianella, Sunflower, Kingcup, Gladiolus and Springbank (Easterly rendezvous).
		HMS Burnham's, HMS Burwell's and HMS Malcolm's Reports
	www.warsailors.com /convoys/hx126report.html (1195 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Corvette HMS Gladiolus of the Flower class
		H.M.C. Sanders, RNR) picks up 35 survivors from the British merchant Llanarth that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-30 about 220 miles west by south of Ushant in position 47.30N, 10.30W.
		The German submarine U-26 was scuttled in the North Atlantic, in position 48.03N, 11.30W after being heavily damaged by 8 depth charges from the British corvette HMS Gladiolus (Lt.Cdr.
		The German submarine U-556 was sunk in the North Atlantic south-west of Iceland, in position 60.24N, 20.00W, by depth charges from the British corvettes HMS Nasturtium, HMS Celandine and HMS Gladiolus.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4761.html (286 words)

	The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II--1941
		Battle of Denmark Strait: British battle cruiser HMS Hood is sunk, and battleship HMS Prince of Wales damaged, by German battleship Bismarck (which is damaged by a shell from the latter capital ship) and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen.
		One of the pursuing ships is British battleship HMS Rodney, en route to the United States for a refit at Boston when she is rerouted to participate in the hunt for Bismarck; on board is U.S. Naval Observer Lieutenant Commander Joseph H. Wellings, who witnesses the ensuing battle from that unique vantage point.
		British river gunboat HMS Peterel, however, moored nearby in the stream of the Whangpoo River, refuses demand to surrender and is sunk by gunfire from Japanese coast defense ship Idzumo.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/USN-Chron/USN-Chron-1941.html (16221 words)

	Letter G - John H Marsh Maritime Research Centre - South African Maritime Museum - Cape Town
		GLOUCESTER HMS Br crsr 9400displacement/1937 in 1940 (1941 bombed and sunk)
		GLOUCESTER CASTLE passenger 7999/1911 as HMS hospital ship in WW1 & as pass in early 1930s & '39 (1942 sunk by raider)
		GNAT HMS Bri gunboat 645/1915 in WW1 (1945 scrapped)
	rapidttp.com /museum/jmmc/jmmcg.html (1021 words)

	Flower Class Corvettes HMS Gardenia to HMS Lotus
		He was taken from the sea aboard the HMS Gardenia, and died shortly afterwards, and was buried at sea.
		I would like to contact anyone from HMS Gardenia that may know anything of this.
		My father served on HMS Gentian and I have been unable to find any pictures of her at all.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /corvettesg2l.htm (909 words)

	Royal Navy Corvettes
		It was an awesome experience to see my father's picture at the age of 22, taken 117 years ago.
		My grandfather served on HMS Willowherb during WW2.
		I would love to hear from anyone who's relatives served on the ship and also any information on the ship and photos.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /corvettes.htm (1364 words)

	15 October 1941
		The British submarine HMS TORBAY bombards the Libyan port of Apollonia.
		U-432, U-502, U-558 and U-568, followed by U-73, U-77, U-101 and U-751 converge on the convoy, and one of these boats, U-568, torpedoes and sinks British steamer SS Empire Heron before being driven off by British corvette HMS Gladiolus.
		Consequently, the USN's Task Unit 4.1.4 (Captain Hewlett Thebaud), comprising 4 U.S. destroyers, is directed to proceed to SC 48's aid as the west-bound convoy it had been escorting, ON 24, is dispersed.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1941/10/15.htm (282 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Ships hit by U-boats - HMS Gladiolus (K 34) (Corvette)
		On 17 Oct, 1941, the HMS Gladiolus (LtCdr Harry M.C. Sanders DSO DSC), escorting the convoy SC-48, was ordered to pick up survivors from several torpedoed ships and doing so fell behind the convoy.
		Between 01.28 and 02.14 hours on 17 Oct, 1941, U-558 fired torpedoes at several ships in the convoy, sinking the W.C. Teagle, Erviken and Rym and probably the HMS Gladiolus.
		But it is also possible that the corvette was sunk during an attack from U-432 (Schultze) between 03.42 and 04.00 hours.
	uboat.net /allies/merchants/1157.html (161 words)

	WWII U-Boats
		Her career was a Front Boat and sunk 12 ships for a total of 55,692 tons as well as damaging 2 ships.
		She was sunk on July 1, 1940 in the North Atlantic (48°03'N, 11°30'W) by 8 depth charges from the British Corvette HMS Gladiolus and an Australian Sunderland aircraft (Sqdn 10/H).
		Fate: Sunk 25 Feb, 1940 in the North Sea south of the Shetland Islands, at location 58°40'N, 00°10'W, by depth charges and torpedoes from the British destroyers, HMS Escort, Inglefield and Imogen and the British submarine HMS Narwhal.
	www.enemybeneath.com /sh2/uboats.htm (4170 words)

	U-boat, U, U-, U., Fleur de Lys, Cossack, Gladiolus, Broadwater, Kearny, Ruben James, HMS, USS, WOMP, MOMP, RCN, RN
		U-boat, U, U-, U., Fleur de Lys, Cossack, Gladiolus, Broadwater, Kearny, Ruben James, HMS, USS, WOMP, MOMP, RCN, RN return to
		1st - Corvette Gladiolus claimed the first success for the 'Flower' class when with the support of an RAF Sunderland, she sank
		HMS Audacity, converted from a German prize, had a short life, but proved the great value of these vessels.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsUboats2.htm (5579 words)

	U-Boat Operations
		On 17th Oct 1941 he sank the British 925 ton HMS Gladiolus, a member of convoy SC-48.
		On 17th Oct 1941 he sank the Norwegian 1,369 ton Rym, part of convoy SC-48.
		On 12th May 1942 he sank the British 913 ton HMS Bedfordshire.
	www.ubootwaffe.net /ops/boat.cgi?boat=558 (825 words)

	infofx.org - List of ship launches in 1940 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		- HMS Eɾne (U03) (): 1250 ton Black Swan class sloop
		- HMS Ibis (U99) (): 1250 ton Black Swan class sloop
		- HMS Gladiolus (K34) (): Floweɾ class coɾvette by Smiths Dock on the Riveɾ Tees
	de_2.eishockey.bundesliga.2004.05.de.online-signup.info (173 words)

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