HMS Honeysuckle (K27)

HMS Honeysuckle was a Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She served as an ocean escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. [1][2][3]

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Honeysuckle.
HMS Honeysuckle coming alongside the aircraft carrier Trumpeter in the Kola Inlet
History
United Kingdom
Name: Rhododendron
Ordered: 31 August 1939
Builder: Ferguson Shipbuilders. Ltd., Port Glasgow
Laid down: 26 October 1939
Launched: 22 April 1940
Commissioned: 14 September 1940
Out of service: 1950 – sold to T.W. Ward
Identification: Pennant number: K27
Fate: sold 1950; scrapped November 1950
General characteristics
Class and type: Flower-class corvette (original)
Displacement: 925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 short tons)
Length: 205 ft (62.48 m)o/a
Beam: 33 ft (10.06 m)
Draught: 11.5 ft (3.51 m)
Propulsion:
  • single shaft
  • 2 × fire tube Scotch boilers
  • 1 × 4-cycle triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine
  • 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW)
Speed: 16 knots (29.6 km/h)
Range: 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h)
Complement: 85
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • 1 × SW1C or 2C radar
  • 1 × Type 123A or Type 127DV sonar
Armament:
  • 1 × BL 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mk.IX single gun
  • 2 x double Lewis machine gun
  • 2 × twin Vickers machine gun
  • 2 × Mk.II depth charge throwers
  • 2 × depth charge rails with 40 depth charges
  • initially with minesweeper equipment, later removed

Background

The ship was commissioned on 31 August 1939 by Harland and Wolff from Port Glasgow in Scotland. [4]

War service

On 20 September 1941, HMS Honeysuckle picked up 51 survivors from the CAM ship Empire Burton, which was torpedoed by the German U-boat U-74. That same day, she picked up an additional 22 survivors from the tanker T.J. Williams, which has torpedoed by a different U-boat, U-552. On 4 July 1943, she picked up 276 survivors from the merchant St. Essylt, which was torpedoed by U-375 off of Algeria.[1]

Fate

She was scrapped in 1950 at Grays.[5]

Sources
  • Gardiner, Robert (1987). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
  • Preston, Antony; Raven, Alan (1982). Flower Class Corvettes. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-559-2.
  • Friedman, Norman (2008). British Destroyers & Frigates - The Second World War and After. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-015-4.

References
  1. "HMS Honeysuckle (K 27) of the Royal Navy - British Corvette of the Flower class - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net". uboat.net. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  2. "HMS honeysuckle in the Great War - The Wartime Memories Project -". www.wartimememoriesproject.com. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  3. "HMS Honeysuckle - World Naval Ships Directory". www.worldnavalships.com. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  4. Friedman, Norman s. 340
  5. "Flower Class Corvettes HMS Honeysuckle". www.worldnavalships.com. Retrieved 2017-03-29.


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