Underway in 1944
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMSJonquil
Ordered	31 August 1939
Builder	Fleming and Ferguson
Laid down	27 December 1939
Launched	9 July 1940
Commissioned	20 October 1940
Decommissioned	August 1945
Identification	Pennant number: K68
Fate	Sold to Greece, renamedLemnos
Greece
Name	Lemnos
Renamed	Olympic Rider (1951)
Fate	Sank in 1955 after a collision.
General characteristics
Class & type	Flower-classcorvette
Displacement	925 long tons (940 t)
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

HMSJonquil was aFlower-classcorvette of theBritishRoyal Navy. The corvette, named after the flower genusJonquil, served in theSecond World War.

Laid down by the companyFleming and Ferguson on 27 December 1939 andlaunched on 9 July 1940,Jonquil entered service on 20 October and assumedconvoy responsibilities the following month.^[1] Her first deployment was as an escort for Convoy WS.5A, bound for the West African port ofFreetown.^[1]

Jonquil survived the war but was relegated to the reserve atGibraltar from August 1945. Bought byGreece, the corvette was renamedLemnos and converted into a merchant vessel. RedesignatedOlympic Rider in 1951,Jonquil sank after a collision withOlympic Cruiser in the Antarctic in 1955.^[1]

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969].Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing.ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.OCLC 67375475.
• Mason, Geoffrey B (2005),Chronologies of War Service of Royal Navy Warships: HMS Jonquil - Flower-class Corvette, naval-history.net. Retrieved 22 July 2009.

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