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).
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. Both ships were escorting Convoy OS 45, from Liverpool to Freetown.[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
- ^ 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.
External links
- HMS Stonecrop (K 142), uboat.net
