HMS Tulip (K29)

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HMS Tulip (K29) was a Flower class corvette that served in the Royal Navy.

She launched at Smiths Dock Co. Ltd. on 4 September 1940 and was commissioned into the RN on 18 November 1940.

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She was sold in 1947 and rebuilt as the whaling ship Olympic Conqueror in 1950. She was seized in 1954 by Peruvian warships and was sold to Japan in 1956 as the Otori Maru No. 8. In 1957 whe was sold to Thor Dahl AS and renamed Thorlyn. In 1962 she was laid up in Sandefjord and then sold in 1964 at Gothenburg, Sweden. She was scrapped in Germany in 1965.

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