Dates: 1940 - 1946

“FLOWER” Class corvette ordered from Henry Robb at Leith on 31st August 1939. She was laid down on 4th December that year and was launched on 19th September 1940 as the second RN warship to bear this name. It had been introduced in 1916 for a Sloop which was sold in 1922, but two trawlers requisitioned during WW1 carried this name and were identified by the suffices II and III to avoid any confusion with the Sloop which entered service after the two trawlers. Build of this ship was completed on 13th January 1941. In February 1942 she was “adopted” by the civil community of Ormskirk, Lancashire after a successful “WARSHIP WEEK” National Savings Campaign.

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HMS PETUNIA was placed in the Disposal List after VJ Day and sold to the Chinese Nationalist Government in 1946. Renamed FU PO she took passage to China later that year and served in operations against the Chinese Communists with the Chinese Nationalist Navy. The next year she was sunk after a collision, but the details of her are not known.

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