HMS Polyanthus

HMS Polyanthus was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 30 November 1940 from Leith Docks on the Firth of Forth, at an estimated cost of £55,000. Polyanthus was sunk by the German submarine U-952 using new German weapons technology on 20 September 1943 about 1,000 miles southwest of Reykjavík during convoy escort duty in the Battle of the North Atlantic.

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1941 — 1943  Wikidata
K47
beam 10.1 metre, draft 3.51 metre, mass 925 long ton, speed 16 knot, length 62.5 metre, 
Flower-class corvette, corvette, shipwreck, Henry Robb, Royal Navy, United Kingdom, 

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Location: 57, -31.1, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,

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1941 — 1943 HMS Polyanthus

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ship launching

1941-04-23T00:00:00Z

1941-04-23T00:00:00Z

ship completed

1940-03-19T00:00:00Z

1940-03-19T00:00:00Z

keel laying

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Frameless

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
link	page		naval-history.net page@		Wikidata
link	page		uboat.net page@		Wikidata
site	shipwreck	1941	HMS Polyanthus	shipwreck, corvette, Flower-class corvette	Wikidata