HMS BLUEBELL IN DOCK 6

HMS BLUEBELL A BRITISH CORVETTE 1942

FWD PORT QTR VEIW -------- AFT PORT QTR VEIW

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE BRIDGE AREA

DETAIL OF MIDSHIPS BULKHEAD WORK RQD ---------- AFT VEIW WITH PARTS THAT NEED UPGRADE

OVERHEAD VEIW OF BASIC BOW DETAILS ( MUCH TO BE UPGRADED )

BOW OVERHEAD VEIW --------- STERN OVERHEAD VEIW

PORT SIDE BASIC DETAIL WORKS SO FAR

BOW VEIW ----------- STERN VEIW

STD VEIW OF WORK SO FAR

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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: Sunk by torpedo, 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 tons
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

Commanders:

Lt.Cdr. Robert Evan Sherwood, RNR
Lt. Roy McEwen Sinclair, RNR
Lt. Geoffrey Herbert Walker, RNVR, DSC

Operations:

Battle of the Atlantic
Arctic convoys
Allied invasion of Sicily
Invasion of Normandy

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