HMS Snowdrop (K67)
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Snowdrop.
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| Name: | HMS Snowdrop |
| Ordered: | 31 August 1939 |
| Builder: | Smiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) |
| Laid down: | 4 February 1941 |
| Launched: | 12 May 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 30 July 1941 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Flower-class corvette |
| Displacement: | 925 long tons (940 t) |
| Length: | 205 ft (62 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
| Installed power: | 30 ft 4 in (9.25 m) |
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| Speed: | 16 kn (18 mph; 30 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,500 nmi (4,000 mi; 6,500 km) at 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 85 |
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HMS Snowdrop was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War.
She was built at Smiths Dock Co., Ltd. South Bank on Tees and launched on 12 May 1941. She was sold on 17 May 1947 and scrapped on the Tyne in September 1949.
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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