HMS Godetia (K226)

HMS Godetia

HMS Godetia underway.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Godetia, originally Dart
Ordered	24 August 1940
Builder	John Crown & Sons Ltd, Sunderland, England
Laid down	15 January 1941
Launched	24 September 1941
Commissioned	23 February 1942
Decommissioned	October 1945
Out of service	Transferred to the Royal Navy Belgian Section
Reinstated	Returned to the Royal Navy
Fate	Scrapped in 1947
Belgium
Name	HMS Godetia
Acquired	12 February 1942
Out of service	16 December 1944
Fate	Returned to the Royal Navy
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Flower-class corvette
Displacement	1,015 long tons (1,031 t) (standard)
Length	208 ft 3 in (63.47 m) (o/a)
Beam	33 ft 1 in (10.08 m)
Draught	13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Installed power	2,750 ihp (2,050 kW) 2 × cylindrical boilers
Propulsion	1 × Shaft 1 × Vertical triple-expansion steam engine
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Range	3,450 nmi (6,390 km; 3,970 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	85
Sensors and processing systems	1 × Type 123A ASDIC
Armament	1 × BL 4-inch (102 mm) Mk IX gun 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm (0.8 in) cannon 2 × Depth charge throwers 2 × Rails with 40 depth charges

HMS Godetia (pennant number: K226; originally named HMS Dart) was the second Flower-class corvette with that name built for the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War as part of the Section Belge of the Royal Navy (RNSB). With the liberation of Belgium in late 1944, the vessel was returned to the United Kingdom. In common with other Flower-class corvettes, the ship was named after an eponymous flower.