HMS Wallflower

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Liverpool, Albert Dock. Refit for HMS Wallflower (K44)

3 May 1942. Abbekerk is still waiting for orders to leave Colombo. Meanwhile in England the corvette HMS Wallflower is getting a big overhaul after two years of intense convoy service. Her equipment is also modernised and that will prove...

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Two lifeboats, 62 men, 700 miles from nearest shore

27 August 1942. No SOS was sent. The impact of the torpedo destroyed the radio antenna and the emergency transmitter in the lifeboat does nothing. The 62 men are completely on their own in two overcrowded lifeboats. It turned out...

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Saved by HMS Wallflower and radar

29 August 1942 Three days and three nights passed without us seeing anything on the horizon. Which wasn’t that far since our little boats hardly stuck out of water giving us a very short horizon. But then, after three days,...

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HMS Wallflower rejoins the convoy

30 August 1942.  First of all the cook had quickly made a soup. This soup was the tastiest food I have ever eaten. Not a surprise really. We were accommodated in a couple of mess-rooms. I can remember that walking...

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Just in time. Storm to New York

2 September 1942. Me, the captain and some others were transferred to the Dutch SS Jan van Goyen. We had been picked up just in time: already in the afternoon winds became stronger and around midnight we found ourselfs in...

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New York: ‘Torpedo leave’

9 September 1942. In New York someone had let it be known that a ship with castaways had arrived and that was the reason why a large mobile canteen had arrived on the docks with a foursome of very friendly...