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HMS Sunflower (K41)

1940 Flower-class corvette

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ12790695 ↗
Source-derived summary

HMS Sunflower was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War.

She was built at Smith's Dock Company, South Bank on Tees and launched on 19 August 1940. She was sold on 17 May 1947 and scrapped at Hayle, Cornwall, in September 1947.

HMS Sunflower was the most successful of the Royal Navy Flower-class. She single-handedly sank two U-boats: U-638 on 5 May 1943 and U-631 on 17 October 1943. She shared sinking of U-282 on 29 October 1943.

Officers and crew

The task faced by the Captain, Lt. Cdr. John Treasure Jones, RNR, with his new crew was the same for all corvettes which were manned mainly by volunteers.

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“HMS Sunflower (K41)” enters the record as 1940 Flower-class corvette. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sunflower, Flower-class and corvette can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 1947, 1943—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sunflower, Flower-class and corvette.
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This entry incorporates text from “HMS Sunflower (K41)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.