Английская Википедия:HMS Honeysuckle (K27)

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HMS Honeysuckle was a Шаблон:Sclass2 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]

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]

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References

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