HMCS Mayflower
HMCS Mayflower, circa 1942 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Mayflower |
| Namesake | Maianthemum canadense |
| Ordered | 20 January 1940 |
| Builder | Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal |
| Laid down | 20 February 1940 |
| Launched | 3 July 1940 |
| Commissioned | 28 November 1940 |
| Out of service | 15 May 1941 - loaned to Canada |
| Identification | Pennant number: K191 |
| Fate | Loaned to Canada 1941; returned 1945; scrapped 1949 |
| Canada | |
| Name | Mayflower |
| Acquired | Loaned from Royal Navy |
| Commissioned | 15 May 1941 |
| Out of service | 31 May 1945 |
| Identification | Pennant number: K191 |
| Honours & awards | Atlantic 1941-43; Normandy 1944; English Channel 1945 |
| Fate | Returned to the Royal Navy 31 May 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Flower-class corvette (original) |
| 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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HMCS Mayflower was a Flower-class corvette that served mainly in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War but began her service with the Royal Navy. She saw action primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as an ocean escort. She was named after the flowering plant Maianthemum canadense.