HMS Mallow

HMS Mallow was a Flower-class corvette commissioned into the Royal Navy that served as a convoy escort during World War II; with the Royal Navy in 1940–1944, and with the Royal Yugoslav Navy-in-exile in 1944–1945. She was renamed Nada in Yugoslav service. Her main armament was a single 4-inch (102 mm) Mk IX naval gun, although a variety of secondary and anti-aircraft guns were added towards the end of the war. During the war, she escorted 80 convoys whilst in British service, sinking one German U-boat with the assistance of another ship, and escorted another 18 convoys whilst in Yugoslav service. After the war, she served in the fledgling navy of the new Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia as Nada then Partizanka, before being returned to the Royal Navy in 1949. Later that year, she was purchased by the Egyptian Navy in which she served as El Sudan. She did not see any action in the various conflicts in which Egypt was involved, and was decommissioned in 1975.