HMS Stonecrop (K142)

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 & 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)

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. 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.

References

• 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. OCLC 67375475.

External links

• HMS Stonecrop (K 142), uboat.net