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Allied Warships

HMS Honeysuckle (K 27)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 27 
Built byFerguson Shipbuilders. Ltd. (Port Glasgow, Scotland) 
Ordered31 Aug, 1939 
Laid down26 Oct, 1939 
Launched22 Apr, 1940 
Commissioned14 Sep, 1940 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Sold to T.W. Ward in 1950, arrived at Grays in November 1950 for scrapping.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. George Windsor Gregorie, RNR
July 1940 – 11 February 1942

Lt. Henry Herbert Dietrich MacKillican, DSC, RN
11 February 1942 – 13 February 1944
Bar to DSC awarded on 25 August 1942

T/Lt. James Alfred Wright, RNR
13 February 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List
OBE 21 August 1945 


Noteable events involving Honeysuckle include:

20 Sep, 1941
HMS Honeysuckle (Lt.Cdr. G.W. Gregorie, RNR) picks up 58 survivors from the British merchant Empire Burton that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-74 east of Cape Farewell in position 61º34'N, 35º05'W.

HMS Honeysuckle also picks up 58 survivors from the British tanker T.J. Williams that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-552 east of Cape Farewell in position 61º34'N, 35º11'W.

4 Jul, 1943
Between 2100 and 2145 hours on 4 July 1943 the British passenger ship City of Venice and the British merchant St. Essylt were torpedoed and sunk off Cape Tenez, Algeria in position 36º44'N, 01º31'E. (The St. Essylt caught fire and blew up next moring.)

461 of the crew of and troops the City of Venice was carrying were rescued by the British corvettes HMS Honeysuckle (Lt. H.H.D. MacKillican, DSC, RNR), HMS Rhododendron (Lt. O.B. Medley, RNVR), the British frigate HMS Teviot (Cdr. T. Taylor, DSC, RN) and the British rescue tug HMRT Restive (Lt. D.M. Richards, RNR).

397 of the crew and troop of the St. Essylt were picked up by HMS Honeysuckle, HMS Rhododendron and HMRT Restive. (see map)


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