Name HMS Vervain Yard number 1101 Completed 9 June 1941 Construction started 16 November 1940 Length 62 m Builder Harland and Wolff | Ordered 8 April 1940 Laid down 16 November 1940 Commissioned 9 June 1941 Launched 12 March 1941 Draft 3.51 m | |
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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 German submarine 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.
On 20 February 1945 at 11.45 hours Vervain was escorting a homeward-bound convoy when she was sunk by a torpedo from an 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. The commander, three officers and 56 ratings were lost. Three officers and 30 ratings were rescued. In turn the U-boat, U-1276 was sunk with depth charges by HMS Amethyst (F116). The action resulted in the loss of all 49 of the U-boat's crew.
HMS Vervain is a Designated vessel under schedule 1 of The Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 (Designation of Vessels and Controlled Sites) Order 2012.