HMS Camellia (K31)

HMS Camellia was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy.

She was laid down on 14 November 1939, launched on 4 May 1940, and commissioned on 18 June 1940.

Operational service
In January 1941 Camelia served as a rescue transport for five crewman of the merchant ship Ringhorn which had gone down in stormy weather. On 4 February 1941 Camellia and the destroyer HMS Harvester (H19) picked up 121 survivors from HMS Crispin (1940), sunk by GS U-107 (1940). On 7 March 1941, serving as escorts for convoy OB 293 escort south-east of Iceland, Camellia and her sister ship HMS Arbutus (K86) sank the German submarine GS U-70 (1940).

Fate
In 1948 she was sold for commercial service and renamed Hetty W Vinke.