HMS Stonecrop (K142)

HMS Stonecrop was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War. She was named after the stonecrop flower (Sedum).

She was built at Smith's Dock, South Bank-on-Tees and launched on 12 May 1941.

Service history
During the Second World War Stonecrop was a convoy escort and helped to sink two U-boats. On 2 April 1943 she and the sloop HMS Black Swan (L57) sank GS U-124 (1940) with depth charges off the coast of Portugal. Later that year on 30 August 1943 she and the sloop HMS Stork (L81) sank GS U-634 with depth charges in the North Atlantic east of the Azores.

Following the war she was sold on 17 May 1947 and became the merchant ship Silver King.