HMS Gentian (K90)

HMS Gentian - September 1941
Career (UK)
Name: HMS Gentian
Namesake: gentian
Ordered: 19 September 1939
Builder: Harland and Wolff
Yard number: 1070[1]
Laid down: 20 April 1940
Launched: 6 August 1940
Completed: 22 September 1940[1]
Commissioned: 20 September 1940
Identification: Pennant number: K90
Honours and
awards:		 Atlantic 1939-45
Mediterranean 1940-45
Normandy 1944
Fate: Scrapped Purfleet
21 August 1947
General characteristics
Class and type:Flower-class corvette
Displacement:950 tons
Length:205 ft (62 m)
Installed power:2750 HP
Propulsion:Reciprocating engine, 1 shaft
Speed:16 knots
Range:3500 nm. at 12 knots
Complement:85
Armament:1 BL 4-inch (102 mm) Mk IX gun

1 QF 2 pounder AA

4 .303 in machine guns AA

HMS Gentian was a Royal Navy Flower-class corvette that served in the Battle of the Atlantic, during World War II.

One of the first batch of wartime corvettes laid down, she served most of the time in the Western Approaches, escorting convoys across the North Atlantic with Escort Group B2 and was also on the Arctic runs to Murmansk and Archangel. In 1941 the ship was also involved in escort work out of Gibraltar and was one of the Royal Navy corvettes employed on escort duties during D-Day.

Wartime service

Western Approaches Command convoy's involving HMS Gentian

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 McCluskie, Tom (2013). The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff. Stroud: The History Press. p. 148. ISBN 9780752488615.

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