HMS Aubrietia (K96)
HMS Aubrietia (K96), 1941 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Aubrietia (Aubretia) |
| Builder | George Brown & Co., Greenock |
| Laid down | 27 October 1939 |
| Launched | 5 September 1940 |
| Commissioned | 23 December 1940 |
| Decommissioned | 29 July 1946 |
| Honours & awards | Atlantic 1941-45, North Africa 1942-43, South France 1944 and Mediterranean 1944 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap in 1966 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Flower-class corvette |
| Displacement | 940 tons |
| Length | 205 ft (62.48 m) |
| Beam | 33 ft (10.06 m) |
| Draught | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
| Propulsion | Single shaft 2 × fire tube Scotch boilers; 2 screws; 1 × 4-cycle triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine; 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW) |
| Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
| Range | 3,500 nmi (6,482 km) @ 12 kt |
| Complement | 85 |
| Sensors & processing systems | 1 × SW1C or 2C radar, 1× Type 123A or Type 127DV sonar |
| Armament | 1 × 4 inch BL Mk.IX single gun, 2 × Vickers .50 machine guns (twin), 2 × .303 inch Lewis machine gun (twin), 2 × Mk.II depth charge throwers, 2 × depth charge rails with 40 depth charges, originally fitted with minesweeping gear, later removed. |
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HMS Aubrietia (K96) was a Flower-class corvette built for the Royal Navy (RN) from 1941-1946. She was active as a convoy escort in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. In May 1941, Aubrietia sighted and depth charged the German submarine U-110, leading to its capture and the seizure of a German Naval Enigma (enigma machine) and its Kurzsignale code book.