History | |
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France | |
Name | La Malouine |
Ordered | 25 July 1939 |
Builder | Smiths Dock Co. Ltd, Middlesbrough, England |
Laid down | 13 November 1939 |
Launched | 21 March 1940 |
Commissioned | June 1940 |
Fate | Seized by the Royal Navy, 3 July 1940 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS La Malouine |
Acquired | 3 July 1940 |
Commissioned | 29 July 1940 |
Identification | Pennant number: K46 |
Fate | Scrapped at Gelliswick Bay, 22 May 1947 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette |
Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t) |
Length | 205 ft (62 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draught | 11.5 ft (3.5 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 85 |
Armament |
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HMS La Malouine was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy, serving during the Second World War. Originally ordered by the French Navy (Marine Nationale) under the same name, following the fall of France, the ship was seized by the United Kingdom and commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1940. The corvette remained in service until being broken up in 1947.