HMS Bluebell (K80)
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Bluebell |
| Builder: | Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley |
| Yard number: | 559 |
| Laid down: | 25 October 1939 |
| Launched: | 24 April 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 19 July 1940 |
| Fate: | Sunk 17 February 1945 on position |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Flower class corvette |
| Displacement: | 940 tons |
| Length: | 205 ft (62 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft 6 in (3.5 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 fire tube boilers one 4-cycle triple-expansion steam engine |
| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h) at 2,750 hp |
| Range: | 5,000 nautical miles at 10 knots (9,260 km at 18.5 km/h) |
| Complement: | 86 |
| Armament: | 1 × 4 in (102 mm) BL Mk IX gun 1 × 2 pounder (40 mm) "pom-pom" 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns 2 × .303 inch (7.7 mm) twin Lewis machine guns 1 × Hedgehog A/S Mortar 4 × Mk.II Depth Charge Thrower (K-gun) 2 × stern depth charge racks with 40 depth charges |
| Service record | |
| Commanders | Lt. G.H. Walker, RNVR, DSC |
| Operations | Battle of the Atlantic Arctic convoys |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Bluebell.
HMS Bluebell (K80) was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy.
She was launched on 24 April 1940 and commissioned in October 1940. One of her first duties, that month, was to meet Convoy SC-7 mid-ocean. It was a brutal introduction to the Battle of the Atlantic.
She was torpedoed and sunk by U-711 in the Kola Inlet on 17 February 1945 while escort the convoy RA-64 from Murmansk. Only 1 member of her crew survived.
[edit] External links
- Uboat.net page devoted to HMS Bluebell.
- Clyde Warships page devoted to HMS Bluebell.
- warshipsww2.eu page devoted to HMS Bluebell.
- HMS Bluebell on the Arnold Hague database at convoyweb.org.uk.
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