HMS Honeysuckle (K27)

History
HMS Honeysuckle coming alongside the aircraft carrier HMS Trumpeter in the Kola Inlet
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

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.

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

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.

She was scrapped in 1950 at Grays.

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