HMSSpiraea, 25 April 1942
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Spiraea
Ordered	21 September 1939
Builder	Harland and Wolff[1] (A&J Inglis)
Yard number	1056[1]
Laid down	31 May 1940
Launched	31 October 1940
Completed	27 February 1941[1]
Commissioned	27 February 1941
Decommissioned	1945
Identification	Pennant number: K08
Fate	Sold to Greece, renamedThessaloniki
General characteristics
Class & type	Flower-classcorvette
Displacement	925 long tons
Length	205 ft (62 m)o/a
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draught	11 ft 6 in (3.51 m)
Propulsion	1 × 4-cycle triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine 2 × fire tube Scotch boilers Single shaft 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW)
Speed	16 kn (30 km/h)
Range	3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h)
Complement	85
Sensors & processing systems	1 × SW1C or 2C radar 1 × Type 123A or Type 127DV sonar
Armament	1 ×BL 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mk.IX gun 2 ×Vickers .50 cal machine gun (twin) 2 ×Lewis .303 cal machine gun (twin) 2 × Mk.IIDepth charge throwers 2 × Depth charge rails with 40 depth charges

HMSSpiraea was aFlower-classcorvette of the BritishRoyal Navy. Named for a genus ofshrub,Spiraea served in theSecond World War as an escort.

The corvette was launched on 31 October 1940 at Glasgow, Scotland and entered nominal service on 27 February 1941. In 1943, she recovered the survivors of two separate sinkings (the merchant vesselsOporto andFort Howe), of which theFort Howe effort was in conjunction withHMS Alisma.

Spiraea was sold to Greece in August 1945 and became theThessaloniki.

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• Helgason Helgason (2009),HMS Spiraea (K 08): Corvette of the Flower class, uboat.net. Retrieved 23 July 2009.

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