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HMS Dianthus (K95)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Dianthus.
HMS Dianthus was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 9 July 1940 from the Leith Docks on the Firth of Forth and named after the genus of flowering plants including Carnation, Pink, and Sweet William. The ship escorted trade convoys between Newfoundland and the Western Approaches through the Battle of the Atlantic wolf pack attacks of the winter of 1942–43.
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Builder | Henry Robb Ltd. |
Laid down | 31 October 1939 |
Launched | 9 July 1940 |
Commissioned | 17 March 1941 |
Out of service | May 1947 |
Fate | Scrapped 1969 |
Notes | [1] |
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Class and type | Flower-class corvette |
Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 short tons) |
Length | 205 ft (62.48 m)o/a |
Beam | 33 ft (10.06 m) |
Draught | 11.5 ft (3.51 m) |
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Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
Complement | 85 |
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