Английская Википедия:HMS Heartsease (K15)
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Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristicsHMS Heartsease was a Шаблон:Sclass2 of the Royal Navy. She served with both the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the Second World War, with the latter navy as USS Courage. She then spent several years under a succession of names in civilian service. In 1957 she was chartered on behalf of Indonesian rebels to smuggle rubber, copra and matériel. The Indonesian Air Force intercepted and sank her off the coast of Minahasa in North Sulawesi in December 1958.
Construction and commissioning
Heartsease was originally to have been named HMS Pansy, but the name was changed prior to her launch.Шаблон:Sfn She was ordered on 19 September 1939 and laid down at the yards of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 14 November 1939. She was launched on 20 April 1940 and commissioned into service on 20 April 1940.[1]
Wartime service
Convoy escort
Heartsease spent most of her early career escorting convoys through British waters. On 22 September 1940 she picked up 31 survivors from the Norwegian merchant Шаблон:SS which had been torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat Шаблон:GS west of Ireland.[1] On 15 October she rescued nine survivors from the British merchant Шаблон:SS which had been sunk by Шаблон:GS Шаблон:Convert west-north-west of Rockall.[1] She was then called to the assistance of the inbound Convoy SC 7, which had come under attack from a U-boat wolfpack and was sustaining heavy losses. On arrival Heartsease was assigned to escort the damaged Шаблон:SS into port.[2] On 23 December she collided with the Шаблон:Sclass2 Шаблон:HMS in the Irish Sea. Both ships were saved and towed into port. A subsequent enquiry placed the blame on the captain of Heartsease.[3]
American service
She was transferred to the US Navy on 3 April 1942 with Lt. Christopher Sylvanus Barker Jr., USN, commanding and renamed USS Courage.[1] She patrolled the western Atlantic for most of her career as a United States ship, escorting convoys from as far north as Greenland to as far south as Argentina. From 24 January 1945, she was stationed at Iceland. She was returned to the Royal Navy on 23 August 1945, after the end of the war.[4]
Mercantile service
She was put up for disposal and was sold into civilian service on 22 July 1946. She was renamed Roskva in 1951, Douglas in 1956 and finally Seabird in 1958.
A Norwegian crew took her to the Far East as Douglas.Шаблон:Sfn In the latter part of 1957 a Chinese-Indonesian businessman, A.P. Lim, engaged her and her Norwegian captain to smuggle raw rubber from Sumatra to Johor on the Malay PeninsulaШаблон:Sfn and later to Singapore.Шаблон:Sfn Lim's client was the PRRI ("Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia") right-wing rebel movement,Шаблон:Sfn which was smuggling rubber out of Sumatra to fund its rebellion against the Indonesian government of President Sukarno.
Early in 1958 Indonesian forces defeated the PRRI in its main strongholds and ports on Sumatra, reducing its rebellion to a residual guerilla war. However, the PRRI was allied with the Permesta rebel movement in North Sulawesi, which was supported by Taiwan. In December 1958 Douglas, now renamed Seabird, smuggled a cargo of small arms, ammunition and M20 recoilless rifles from TaiwanШаблон:Sfn to Bolaang Bay on the coast of Minahasa.Шаблон:Sfn There she began to load a cargo of copra,Шаблон:Sfn which Permesta was smuggling out of Minahasa to fund its rebellion. However, before she could start her voyage the Indonesian Air Force found Seabird and sank her.Шаблон:Sfn
Seabird was announced missing in December 1958[1] and a month later she was declared lost in the Celebes Sea, with the cause of her loss officially declared as "unknown".[5]
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