HMS Salvia :
The HMS Salvia (K-97) was a Flower Class (sometimes called Gladiolus class) corvette 955 Grt. built at Willam Simons & Co., Renfrewe (Yard No. 731) for the British Royal Navy. Launched 06 August 1940.
Specifications:

Displacement: 925 long tons (940 t/1,036 ST)
Length: 205 feet (62.48 m)o/a
Beam: 33 feet (10.06 m)
Draught: 11.5 feet (3.51 m)
Propulsion: (1939-1940 program)
      single shaft
      2 x fire tube Scotch boilers
      1 x 4-cycle triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine
      2,750 ihp (2,050 kW)
1940-1941 program       single shaft
      2 x water tube boilers
      1 x 4-cycle triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine
      2,750 ihp (2,050 kW)
Speed: 16 knots (29.6 km/h)
Range: 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h)
Complement: 85

Sensors and processing systems:
1 x SW1C or 2C radar
1 x Type 123A or Type 127DV sonar

Armament:
1 x 4" BL Mk.IX single gun
2 x .50 cal machine gun (twin)
2 x Lewis .303 cal machine gun (twin)
2 x Mk.II depth charge throwers
2 x depth charge rails with 40 depth charges originally fitted with minesweeping gear, later removed
On 23 Dec, 1941, HMS Salvia (LtCdr John Isdale Miller DSO DSC) was escorting the convoy TA-5 (Tobruk to Alexandria) when another ship in the convoy, the Shuntien, was sunk by U-559 (Heidtmann). The Shuntien was carrying 850 prisoners of war and the HMS Salvia stayed behind to collect survivors but was not seen again, only oil and wreckage was found by HMS Peony (K 40) about 100 miles west of Alexandria at postion 31.46N/28.00E (Grid CO 6878).

At 0135 on 24 December, U-568 (Joachim Preuss) had fired a spread of four torpedoes at the HMS Salvia, which was hit by one of them and broke in two. The stern section of the ship sank rapidly while burning oil covered the sea and the fore section of the ship followed after a few minutes. All four officers and 54 ratings were lost together with the master, 47 crew members and an unknown number of gunners and prisoners from the Shuntien.
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