HMS Arbutus (K86)
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| Name: | HMS Arbutus |
| Builder: | Blyth Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Ltd |
| Laid down: | 30 November 1939 |
| Launched: | 5 June 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 12 October 1940 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: K86 |
| Fate: | Torpedoed, 5 February 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Flower-class corvette |
| Displacement: | 940 tons |
| Length: | 205 ft (62 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught: | 11.5 ft (3.5 m) |
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| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) at 2,750 hp |
| Range: | 3,500 nautical miles at 12 knots (6,500 km at 22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 87 men |
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HMS Arbutus was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy.
World War II service
She is credited with sinking U-47.
Fate
She was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-136 on 5 February 1942.
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