Allied Warships

HMS Tulip (K 29)

Corvette of the Flower class

Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	Corvette
Class	Flower
Pennant	K 29
Built by	Smiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.)
Ordered	31 Aug 1939
Laid down	30 May 1940
Launched	4 Sep 1940
Commissioned	18 Nov 1940
End service
History	Sold in May 1947. Rebuildt as whaler Olympic Conqueror in 1950. Taken with expedition by Peruvian warships in November 1954. Sold to Japan in 1956, renamed Otori Maru No.8. Sold in 1957 to Thor Dahl AS, renamed Thorlyn, laid up in Rotterdam. Service from 1957 to 1962 as whaler. Laid up in Sandefjord. Sold in November 1964 to Gothenburg, Sweden, where she was rigged down. Scrapped in Germany in 1965.

Commands listed for HMS Tulip (K 29)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. (retired) John King Pollock, RN	Oct 1940	27 Nov 1940
2	Lt.Cdr. Archibald Wilkinson, RNR	27 Nov 1940	mid 1943
3	T/Lt. Leslie Henry Harvey, RNR	mid 1943	1 Aug 1944
4	Lt.Cdr. Frederick George Sharp, RD, RNR	Aug 1944	9 Apr 1945
5	Lt. John Harvey Merriman, RNR	9 Apr 1945	late 1945

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