| HMS Vervain (K190) | |
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 HMS Vervain's 4-inch gun crew in action, July 1942 | |
| Career (United Kingdom) |  |
| Name: | HMS Vervain |
| Ordered: | 8 April 1940 |
| Builder: | Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Laid down: | 16 November 1940 |
| Launched: | 12 March 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 9 June 1941 |
| Struck: | 20 February 1945 |
| Fate: | Torpedoed and sunk on 20 February 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Flower-class corvette |
| Displacement: | 925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 short tons) |
| Length: | 205 ft (62.48 m)o/a |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10.06 m) |
| Draught: | 11.5 ft (3.51 m) |
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| Speed: | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
| Complement: | 85 |
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HMS Vervain was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War.
On 28 February 1943 the liberty ship SS Wade Hampton was torpedoed by U-405 while sailing in a convoy from New York to Murmansk, Russia. Survivors were picked up by Vervain, SS Bayano and HMS Beverly near Greenland.[1]
On 20 February 1945 at 11.45 hours Vervain was escorting a homeward-bound convoy when she was sunk by a torpedo from the U-boat U-1276, under Oberleutnant zur See Karl-Heinz Wendt about 25 miles south-east of Dungarvan, Ireland, south of Waterford. Vervain sank after 20 minutes. Three officers and 30 ratings were rescued.[2]
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Coordinates: 51°47′N 7°6′W / 51.783°N 7.1°W
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