History of HMS Celandine Royal Naval Flower Class Corvettes of
World War II. HMS Celandine is shown in naval painting escorting Atlantic Convoy. The
Flower-Class corvettes main role was escorting convoys. The corvettes were
built mostly in British dockyards in 1940 & 1941. Original painting of
HMS Celandine available.
HMS Celandine a Flower Class Corvette,
Launched 28th December 1940,n Displacement 925 tons, and a crew of 85, top
speed of 16 knots. and a armament of one 4 - inch gun, one 2 pounder
AA and four .303 inch AA guns. She was finally scrapped at
Portaferry in October 1948.
