HMS Lotus (K130)
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| Class and type: | Flower-class corvette |
| Name: | HMS Lotus |
| Builder: | Henry Robb Limited, Leith, Scotland |
| Launched: | 16 January 1942 |
| Commissioned: | May 1942 |
| Out of service: | Sold 1947 |
| Renamed: | Launched as HMS Phlox, renamed HMS Lotus in April 1942 |
| Fate: | Sold in 1947 for mercantile use. Wrecked on 18 December 1966 |
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| Displacement: | 940 tons |
| Length: | 205 ft (62 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught: | 11.5 ft (3.5 m) |
| Propulsion: | Two fire tube boilers one 4-cycle triple-expansion steam engine |
| Speed: | 16 knots at 2,750 hp |
| Range: | 3,500 nautical miles at 12 knots (6,500 km at 22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 85 men |
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| Motto: | ' |
| Notes: | Pennant number K130 |
HMS Lotus (K130) was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy.
She was built by Henry Robb Limited, of Leith, Scotland and launched on 16 January 1942. Originally named HMS Phlox, she was renamed in April 1942 after the previous HMS Lotus was transferred to the Free French Navy. She was commissioned in May 1942.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Wartime
Lotus served as an escort for a number of convoys, including the ill-fated Convoy PQ-17, where she rescued 38 survivors from the SS River Afton, which had been torpedoed by U 703. In late 1942 she was operating in the Mediterranean, where on 12 November, in company with HMS Starwort, she depth charged and damaged U 660 off Oran. The damaged U-boat was forced to scuttle herself.
[edit] Postwar
Lotus survived the Second World War, and served with the Royal Navy until 1947. In 1947 she was put up for sale and bought by Christian Salvesen Ltd. She became the merchant vessel Southern Lotus. She was refitted as a buoy tender at Smith's Dock in 1948 and later used as a whaler until 1963. She was towed from Leith Harbour to Melsomvik in the Spring of 1963 and laid up. She was sold in December 1966 for breaking up in Belgium and towed together with the Southern Briar (formerly HMS Cyclamen) by the tug Temi III. The towing wire broke on 18 December in stormy weather, causing both ships to ground and be wrecked off Jutland.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- HMS Lotus at Uboat.net
- Convoy web
- HMS Lotus on the Arnold Hague database at convoyweb.org.uk. Look for entries labelled Lotus and HMS Lotus
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