HMS Stonecrop (K142)
 HMS Stonecrop in October 1942
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| 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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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).
She was built at Smith's Dock, South Bank-on-Tees and launched on 12 May 1941.
Service history
[edit]During 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
