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![]() Aconit in 1942 paint
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Name | Aconit |
Namesake | Aconitum |
Laid down | 25 March 1940 |
Launched | 31 March 1941[1] |
Commissioned | 19 July 1941 |
Decommissioned | 30 April 1947 |
Identification | Pennant number: K58 |
Honours and awards |
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Fate | Returned to the Royal Navy 30 April 1947; sold July 1947. |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette |
Displacement | 950 tonnes |
Length | 62.7 metres (206 ft) |
Beam | 10.9 metres (36 ft) |
Draught | 2.7 metres (8 ft 10 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Range |
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Complement | 70 |
Sensors and processing systems | Type 271 surface radar |
Armament |
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Aconit (formerly HMS Aconite) was one of the nine Flower-class corvettes lent by the Royal Navy to the Free French Naval Forces. During World War II, she escorted 116 convoys, spending 728 days at sea. She was awarded the Croix de la Libération and the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945, and was cited by the British Admiralty. Following the war she was used as whaling ship for three different companies from 1947 to 1964.