An item reported that the Yugoslavian navy possessed the corvette Nada commissioned in 1940 which was the former Canadian Mallow. Tonnage 1.500 tons, length 62 metres, speed 20-23 knots and an armament of 1-10,5cm gun and 12-2cm machine guns.
Note
1. Flower-class, building ordered on 19 September 1939, laid down with yard number 1065 by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Ireland on 14 November 1939, launched on 22 May 1940, commissioned as HMS Mallow (K81), handed over to the Royal Yugoslavian Navy on 11 January 1944, renamed Nada, after the Second World War owned by the SFR Yugoslavia as Partizanka, returned to the Royal British Navy in 1949, handed over to Egypt on 28 October 1949, renamed El Sudan and decommissioned in 1974.
Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP82-00457R000200660013-7
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