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HMS Thyme (K210)

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Name
  
HMS Thyme

Laid down
  
30 Apr 1941

Identification
  
Pennant number K210

Launched
  
25 July 1941

Builder
  
Smiths Dock Company

Namesake
  
Thyme

Commissioned
  
23 Oct 1941

Construction started
  
30 April 1941

Length
  
62 m

Fate
  
Sold 1947 as Weather ship Weather Explorer

HMS Thyme was a Flower-class corvette which served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Laid down by Smiths Dock Company in April 1941, She was launched in July 1941, and commissioned in October 1941.

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Royal Navy service

Thyme began escorts on 21 November 1941, with the convoy HX 161, from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Liverpool. She spent most of her remaining career escorting convoys around The Indian Ocean and Africa.

Service after the Royal Navy

She was transferred to the Air Ministry for civilian service in 1947 and was designated the Weather ship, Weather Explorer. In 1958 she was sold again and became the Greek merchant ship Epos

Publications

  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475. 

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