HMS Acanthus
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 Acanthus with a Norwegian flag | |
| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Acanthus |
| Ordered | 21 September 1939[1] |
| Builder | Ailsa Shipbuilding Company |
| Laid down | 21 December 1939 |
| Launched | 26 May 1941 |
| Identification | Pennant number: K01 |
| Fate | Sold to Royal Norwegian Navy, 1947 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Flower-class corvette (original) |
| Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t) |
| 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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HMS Acanthus was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy.
Construction and design
[edit]Acanthus was one of ten Flower-class corvettes ordered on 21 September 1939, in the fourth of a series of orders. She was laid down at Ailsa Shipbuilding Company's Troon shipyard on 21 December 1939, was launched on 26 May 1941 and completed on 1 October 1941.[2][3]
In 1942, the vessel was transferred to the Norwegian armed forces in exile and became the Norwegian ship HNoMS Andenes.
References
[edit]Sources
[edit]- Friedman, Norman (2008). British Destroyers and Frigates: The Second World War and After. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-015-4.
- Lambert, John; Brown, Les (2008). Flower-Class Corvettes. St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada: Vanwall Publishing. ISBN 978-1-55068-986-0.
- Rohwer, Jürgen; Hümmelchen, Gerhard (1992). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945. London: Greenhill Books. ISBN 1-85367-117-7.
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