HMSAS Protea (K51)

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HMS Rockrose during the Second World War
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Rockrose
Builder: C. Hill & Sons, Bristol
Launched: 26 July 1941
Commissioned: 4 November 1941
Out of service: 4 October 1947
Fate: Transferred to South African Navy, 1947
100x28pxSouth Africa
Name: HMSAS Protea
Acquired: 4 October 1947
Decommissioned: January 1957
Fate: Broken up 1967
General characteristics
Class & type: Flower-class corvette

HMSAS Protea was a Flower-class corvette of the South African Navy, previously named HMS Rockrose.

She was completed on 26 July 1941 and transferred on 4 October 1947 to the South African Navy. She was converted to a survey vessel, SAS Protea. She was scrapped in 1967.

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