HMS Stonecrop (K142)

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
History
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
Fate:
  • Sold on 17 May 1947
  • Became a merchant ship
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)
Propulsion:
  • 1 × 4-cycle triple-expansion reciprocating engine
  • 2 × Scotch fire-tube boilers
  • 1 × screw
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
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • 1 × SW1C or 2C radar
  • 1 × Type 123A or Type 127DV sonar
Armament:
  • 1 × BL 4 in (100 mm) Mk.IX gun
  • 4 × Vickers .50 cal machine gun (2×2)
  • 4 × Lewis .303 cal machine gun (2×2)
  • 2 × Mk.II depth charge throwers
  • 2 × Depth charge rails with 40 depth charges
  • originally fitted with minesweeping gear (later removed)

She was built at Smith's Dock, South Bank-on-Tees and launched on 12 May 1941.

Service history

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
  1. Blair 2000, p. 207.

References
  • 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.
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