HMS La Malouine

History
France
Name	La Malouine
Ordered	25 July 1939
Builder	Smiths Dock Co. Ltd, Middlesbrough, England
Laid down	13 November 1939
Launched	21 March 1940
Commissioned	June 1940
Fate	Seized by the Royal Navy, 3 July 1940
United Kingdom
Name	HMS La Malouine
Acquired	3 July 1940
Commissioned	29 July 1940
Identification	Pennant number: K46
Fate	Scrapped at Gelliswick Bay, 22 May 1947
General characteristics
Class and type	Flower-class corvette
Displacement	925 long tons (940 t)
Length	205 ft (62 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draught	11.5 ft (3.5 m)
Propulsion	Two fire tube boilers one 4-cycle triple-expansion steam engine 2,750 hp (2,050 kW)
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Range	3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	85
Armament	1 × BL 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mk IX gun 1 × QF 2-pounder pom-pom two .50-inch (12.7 mm) twin machine guns, two .303-inch (7.7 mm) Lewis machine guns two stern depth charge racks with 40 depth charges

HMS La Malouine was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy, serving during the Second World War. Originally ordered by the French Navy (Marine Nationale) under the same name, following the fall of France, the ship was seized by the United Kingdom and commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1940. The corvette remained in service until being broken up in 1947.