HMS Mallow (K81)

HMS Mallow

HMS Mallow in January 1944
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Mallow
Ordered	19 September 1939
Builder	Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Yard number	1065
Laid down	14 November 1939
Launched	22 May 1940
Commissioned	2 July 1940
Identification	Pennant number: K81
Fate	Transferred to the Royal Yugoslav Navy on 11 January 1944
Yugoslavia
Name	Nada
Acquired	11 January 1944
Out of service	1945
SFR Yugoslavia
Name	Nada
Acquired	1945
Renamed	Partizanka
Fate	Returned to the Royal Navy in 1949
Egypt
Name	El Sudan
Acquired	28 October 1949
Stricken	1975
General characteristics
Class and type	Flower-class corvette
Displacement	925 long tons (940 t) (standard) 1,170 long tons (1,190 t) (deep load)
Length	205 ft (62.5 m)
Beam	33 ft 2 in (10.11 m)
Draught	15 ft 9 in (4.8 m) (deep load)
Installed power	2,750 ihp (2,050 kW) 2 × cylindrical boilers
Propulsion	1 × shaft 1 × 4-cylinder triple-expansion steam engine
Speed	16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Range	3,450 nmi (6,390 km; 3,970 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	85
Armament	1 × 4 in (102 mm) Mk IX naval gun 1 × 2-pounder (40 mm [1.6 in]) "pom-pom" autocannon 2 × twin 0.303-inch (7.7 mm) machine guns 1 x Hedgehog (anti-submarine projector) 2 × depth charge throwers 2 × depth charge rails 40 × depth charges

HMS Mallow was a Flower-class corvette commissioned into the Royal Navy that served as a convoy escort during World War II; with the Royal Navy in 1940–1944, and with the Royal Yugoslav Navy-in-exile in 1944–1945. In Yugoslav service she was renamed Nada. Her main armament was a single 4-inch (102 mm) Mk IX naval gun, although a significant number of secondary and anti-aircraft guns were added towards the end of the war. During the war she escorted a total of 80 convoys whilst in British service, sinking one German U-boat, and escorted another 18 convoys whilst in Yugoslav service. After the war she served in the fledgling Yugoslav Navy as Nada then Partizanka, before being returned to the Royal Navy in 1949. Later that year she was transferred to the Egyptian Navy in which she served as El Sudan until she was decommissioned in 1975.