HMS Dianthus was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 9 July 1940 from the Leith Docks on the Firth of Forth and named after the genus of flowering plants including Carnation, Pink, and Sweet William.

On 24 April 1941 the destroyer HMS Scimitar (Lt. R.D. Franks, OBE, RN), corvettes HMS Dianthus (Lt.Cdr. (Retd.) C.E. Bridgman, RNR), HMS Mallow (Lt.Cdr. W.B. Piggott, RNR), HMS Marigold (T/Lt. J. Renwick, RNR), HMS Nasturtium (Lt.Cdr. J.F.C. Bartley, DSC, RNR), HMS Periwinkle (Lt.Cdr. P.G. MacIver, RNR), HMS Primrose (Lt.Cdr. (Retd.)

Having spent Christmas and New Year in America after escorting one of the last convoys of 1942 across the Atlantic, DIANTHUS prepared for sea and on 12th January convoy SC 117 sailed from New York with twenty-one ships, arriving at Liverpool on 3rd February for no loss.

From commissioning, HMS Dianthus was tasked with convoy escort duties, first in waters west of Britain and then with Mid-Ocean Escort Force (MOEF) group C1. On 8 Aug 1942, she counterattacked German submarine U-379, which was attempting to sink ships of Allied convoy SC-94; she sank U-379 by ramming and sinking.

HMS Dianthus (K95) was a Flower-class corvette launched in 1940 and sold in 1947 becoming the mercantile Thorslep.

Photographs THE BRITISH CORVETTE, HMS DIANTHUS, LANDS PRISONERS FROM A GERMAN U-BOAT SHE RAMMED AND SANK. LIVERPOOL, 14 AUGUST 1942.

HMS Dianthus was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 9 July 1940 from the Leith Docks on the Firth of Forth and named after the genus of flowering plants including Carnation, Pink, and Sweet William.

HMS Dianthus was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 9 July 1940 from the Leith Docks on the Firth of Forth and named after the genus of flowering plants including Carnation, Pink, and Sweet William.

H.M.S. DIANTHUS was among the batch of 26 Corvettes ordered by the Admiralty on 25th July 1939. She was allocated job number J 1050 and constructed by Robb Shipbuilders located at Leith near Edinburgh. Although not the longest corvette build time she still took some 16 months and 17 days to build.

HMS Dianthus was a Flower Class Corvette. She was a relatively new ship, having been built in Scotland in 1939-40. Her Pennant code was K-95. Her motto was "Small but Hardy". The incident related here (the ramming of German submarine U-379 …