HMSAS Protea (K51)
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
300px
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.