HMS Bluebell (K80)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Bluebell
Ordered	27 July 1939
Builder	Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley
Yard number	559
Laid down	25 October 1939
Launched	24 April 1940
Completed	19 July 1940
Identification	Pennant number: K80
Honours and awards	Atlantic 1940-44 Sicily 1943 Mediterranean 1943 Normandy 1944 Arctic 1945
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk, 17 February 1945
Badge	On a Field White, a Bell, Blue, banded and clappered Gold.
General characteristics
Class and type	Flower-class corvette
Displacement	940 long tons (960 t)
Length	205 ft (62 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draught	11 ft 6 in (3.51 m)
Propulsion	2 × fire tube boilers 1 × 4-cycle triple-expansion steam engine
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h) at 2,750 hp (2,050 kW)
Range	5,000 nautical miles (9,300 km) at 10 knots (9,260 km at 18.5 km/h)
Complement	86
Armament	1 × BL 4-inch (100 mm) Mk IX gun 1 × 2-pounder (40 mm) "pom-pom" 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns 2 × .303 inch (7.7 mm) twin Lewis machine guns 1 × Hedgehog A/S Mortar 4 × Mk.II Depth Charge Thrower (K-gun) 2 × stern depth charge racks with 40 depth charges
Service record
Operations:	Battle of the Atlantic Arctic convoys Allied invasion of Sicily Invasion of Normandy

HMS Bluebell was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy in World War II. Ordered from Fleming & Ferguson of Paisley, Scotland on 27 July 1939, she was launched on 24 April 1940 and commissioned in July 1940. She served in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Arctic campaigns, escorting several convoys to Russia, and also took part in the invasions of Sicily and France. She was torpedoed and sunk by U-711 in the Kola Inlet on 17 February 1945 while escorting the convoy RA 64 from Murmansk. Only one member of her crew survived.