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HMS ''Peony'' was a 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 Navy== Throughout 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 , three corvettes and two anti-submarine aircraft she attacked a U-boat on 8 October 1941 with, but the U-boat escaped. In December 1941 while escorting Mediterranean convoy AT-6 from Alexandria to Tobruk, the 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 rescued the survivors. In the small hours of 24 December 1941 torpedoed and sank a Flower-class sister ship, , about west of Alexandria. ''Salvia'' was carrying not only her own complement but also about 100 survivors from , which had sunk a few hours earlier.〔 ''Peony'' went to ''Salvia''s rescue but found no survivors: only a patch of oil.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Peony (K40)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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