HMS Stonecrop was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War. She was named after the stonecrop flower (Sedum).
 HMS Stonecrop in October 1942
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| Name | HMS Stonecrop |
| Ordered | 31 August 1939 |
| Builder | Smith's Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) |
| Laid down | 4 February 1941 |
| Launched | 12 May 1941 |
| Commissioned | 30 July 1941 |
| Identification | Pennant number: K142 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Flower-class corvette |
| Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t) |
| Length | 205 ft (62 m) o/a |
| Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
| Installed power | 30 ft 4 in (9.25 m) |
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| Speed | 16 kn (18 mph; 30 km/h) |
| Range | 3,500 nmi (4,000 mi; 6,500 km) at 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
| Complement | 85 |
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She was built at Smith's Dock, South Bank-on-Tees and launched on 12 May 1941.
Service history
editDuring the Second World War Stonecrop was a convoy escort and helped to sink two U-boats. On 2 April 1943 she and the sloop Black Swan sank U-124 with depth charges off the coast of Portugal.[1] Later that year on 30 August 1943 she and the sloop Stork sank U-634 with depth charges in the North Atlantic east of the Azores.
Following the war she was sold on 17 May 1947 and became the merchant ship Silver King.
Notes
edit- ^ Blair 2000, p. 207.
References
edit- Blair, Clay (2000). Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted 1942–1945. New York: Modern Library. ISBN 0-679-64033-9.
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
External links
edit- HMS Stonecrop (K 142), uboat.net