| 词条 | HMS Peony (K40) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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HMS Peony was a {{sclass2-|Flower|corvette}} of the Royal Navy. In 1943 she was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy as ΒΠ Σαχτούρης ("BP Sachtouris"), serving throughout World War II and the Greek Civil War. She was returned to the Royal Navy in 1951 and scrapped in April 1952. Royal NavyThroughout her Royal Navy career Peony escorted convoys: primarily in home waters, but sometimes in the Mediterranean Sea and to Freetown in Sierra Leone. From late 1940 to early 1941 she was part of the 10th Corvette Group, Mediterranean Fleet based at Alexandria, with which she escorted numerous convoys to Malta. In February 1941 she was equipped for minesweeping as not enough minesweepers were available. In July 1941 she helped to transport troops to Cyprus. She undertook anti-submarine operations off Cyprus in the following months. Along with the Australian destroyer {{HMAS|Vendetta|D69|6}}, three corvettes and two anti-submarine aircraft she attacked a U-boat on 8 October 1941, but the U-boat escaped. In December 1941 while escorting Mediterranean convoy AT-6 from Alexandria to Tobruk, the {{GS|U-559}} torpedoed the Polish steamer Warszawa and attacked Peony. Peony took Warszawa in tow until another torpedo from the U-boat sank the steamship with the loss of 23 men. Peony and {{HMS|Avon Vale|L06|6}} rescued the survivors. In the small hours of 24 December 1941 {{GS|U-568||2}} torpedoed and sank a Flower-class sister ship, {{HMS|Salvia|K97|6}}, about {{convert|100|nmi|km}} west of Alexandria.[2] Salvia was carrying not only her own complement but also about 100 survivors from {{SS|Shuntien|1934|6}}, which {{GS|U-559||2}} had sunk a few hours earlier.[2] Peony went to Salvia{{'}}s rescue but found no survivors: only a patch of oil.[2] Royal Hellenic Navy{{other ships|Greek ship Sachtouris}}In 1943 Peony was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy, which renamed her ΒΠ Σαχτούρης (VP Sachtouris) after Georgios Sachtouris, an admiral in the Greek War of Independence. She was the second of three ships to bear this name, the first being a gunboat built in 1834 in Greece, and the third being the {{sclass-|Gearing|destroyer|2}} {{USS|Arnold J. Isbell|DD-869|6}}.{{#tag:ref|The corvette was the second HMS Peony to be transferred to the Hellenic Navy. The first was a seaplane tender, which was captured by the Germans in 1941 and was still afloat when this ship was transferred, but sank after hitting a mine in the same year.[3]||group=Note}} She served the remainder of the Second World War under the Greek flag. She also served in the Greek Civil War that broke out after the end of the Second World War. In 1947 the United States in what became known as the Truman Doctrine declared its support the Greek government in its war against Communist guerrillas. In the early 1950s the Mutual Defense Assistance Act started the transfer of American ships to Greece. Four {{sclass-|Cannon|destroyer escort}}s entered Greek service and so the old British Flower-class corvettes were superseded. FateSachtouris was returned to the Royal Navy in September 1951 and scrapped on 21 April 1952. Notes1. ^1 {{cite book|last1=McCluskie|first1=Tom|title=The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff|date=2013|publisher=The History Press|location=Stroud|isbn=9780752488615|page=148}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite web|url= http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/1235.html|title=HMS Salvia (K97)|date=1995–2013|last=Helgason|first=Guðmundur|website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net|accessdate=25 April 2013}} 3. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.leander-project.homecall.co.uk/Sloops.html |title=Steel sloops |publisher=The Leander Project |accessdate=17 July 2011}} References{{Reflist|30em}}Sources
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