British corvette HMS Picotee sunk according to the Dutch newspaper Limburgsch dagblad dated 27 August 1941

An item dated Berlin, Germany 27th referred to a statement of the British Admiralty the evening before that the British corvette Picotee was sunk. The families of the killed or wounded men were informed. The Dutch newspaper Soerabaijasch handelsblad dated 28 August added that her commanding officer was lieutenant [R.A.] Harrison of the Royal Naval Reserve (R.N.R.).

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1. K63. Flower-class corvette, laid down by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Ireland with yard number 1069 on 21 March 1940, launched on 19 July 1940, commissioned on 5 September 1940 and sunk by the German submarine U-568 in the Atlantic Ocean on 12 August 1941.