HMS Picotee (K63)
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HMS Picotee was a Flower-class Corvette of the British Royal Navy that served in the Second World War.
HMS Picotee was completed on 5th September 1940 at Harland and Wolff and was employed on convoy escort duty in the North Atlantic.
Allocated to the 4th Escort Group and based on Greenock, she left port on the morning of 7th August 1941 to join part of convoy ONS.4 at sea, proceeding to Iceland.
On the morning of the 12th August she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-568. There were no survivors: the entire ship's company of 5 officers and 61 ratings was reported missing presumed killed.
She was commanded by Lieutenant Ronald Arthur Harrison
A website has been created in memory of HMS Picotee. Please see link below.
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