- HMS La
Malouine was a Flower-class
corvette of the
Royal Navy,
serving during the
Second World War.
Originally ordered by the
French Navy (Marine Nationale)...
- name for the archipelago,
Islas Malvinas,
derives from the
French Îles
Malouines—the name
given to the
islands by
French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville...
- 1954.
Renamed La
Malouine, the ship was
converted to a
territorial patrol vessel in 1973 and
remained in
service until 1977. La
Malouine was sunk as a target...
-
source diary and
supporting material by Jack Bowman, ERA
aboard HMS La
Malouine. PQ 17 at
Convoyweb Helgason, Gudmundur. "PQ-17 The
Greatest Convoy Disaster"...
- Wilton, the corvettes,
minesweepers or
armed trawlers HMS Lotus, Poppy, La
Malouine and HMS Dianella, the Halcyon-class
minesweepers HMS Halcyon, Salamander...
-
March 1942, she
sailed with Pozarica, and the
corvettes Poppy, Lotus, La
Malouine and
Dianella for the port of Seyðisfjörður in
Iceland In June 1942, she...
-
British Empire.
After the peace, the
French decided to
colonise the "Îles
Malouines" (Falkland Islands).
These islands were at that time
almost unknown. At...
- the
Falkland Islands.
Islas Malvinas derives from the 1764 name Îles
Malouines,
given to the
islands by
French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville...
-
source diary and
supporting material by Jack Bowman, ERA
aboard HMS La
Malouine. Lend-Lease,
Northern Convoys from the
Voice of
Russia website The Norwegian...
-
author Antoine-Joseph
Pernety in his work
Histoire d'un
voyage aux
Isles Malouines. The great-tailed
grackle is now one of six
species placed in the genus...
