MARIGOLD
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Owner
Royal Navy
Date4 September 1941
Object NameCORVETTE
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 190 3/6' x breadth 33 1/12' x depth 17 7/12'
Object numberABDSHIP002456
Keywords
Yard Number: 755
Fate: Sunk by torpedo from aircraft in the Gibraltar Straits, 9 December 1942
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Flower Class corvette, design armament 1 x BL 4 inch Mk IX gun, 2 x .50 inch twin machine guns, 2 x .303 inch Lewis machine guns, 2 x stern depth charge racks with 40 depth charges
Owners:
1941: Royal Navy, pennant no. K87.
General History:
26/01/1940: Laid down.
28/01/1941: Commissioned.
07/05/1941: MARIGOLD picked up 19 survivors from the torpedoed British merchant SS IXION 200 miles (320 km) south west of Reykjavik, Iceland.
16/11/1941: MARIGOLD engaged U-433 which sank at 21:55hrs, after a sustained attack with depth charges and gunfire in the Mediterranean, 25 nmi (46 km) east of Gibraltar. MARIGOLD picked up a number of survivors and took them to Gibraltar.
15/06/1942: MARIGOLD picked up 41 survivors from the British merchant SS ETRIB, 20 survivors from the Norwegian tanker SS SLEMDAL and 29 survivors from the British merchant SS THURSO that had been torpedoed and sunk by U-552 380 miles (610 km) West of Corunna, Spain.
13/11/1942: MARIGOLD rescued 81 survivors from the British merchant SS MARON which had been torpedoed and sunk by U-81 off Oran, Algeria.
21/11/1941:
'U-Boat Sunk. The Admiralty is now able to announce that a German U-boat has been destroyed by the corvette HMS MARIGOLD (Lieutenant J. Renwick, R.N.R.) in the area in which HMS Ark Royal had been torpedoed only two days before. As this U-boat was patrolling in the same waters it is practically certain that it was concerned in the attack on HMS Ark Royal. HMS MARIGOLD attacked with depth charges. These forced the U-boat to the surface and it was at once engaged by gun- fire from the corvette. The crew of the U-boat took to the water as their vessel sank. Thirty-four survivors were picked up and are prisoners of war. HMS MARIGOLD was built by Hall, Russell and Co., of Aberdeen. U-BOAT SUNK PROBABLE ATTACKER OF ARK ROYAL.'
(The Times)
1915
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4 February 1920
