HMS Heartsease (K15)
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Heartsease |
| Ordered | 19 September 1939 |
| Builder | |
| Yard number | 1063 |
| Laid down | 14 November 1939 |
| Launched | 20 April 1940 |
| Completed | 4 June 1940 |
| Commissioned | 4 June 1940 |
| Decommissioned | 3 April 1942 |
| Identification | Pennant number: K15 |
| Fate | Transferred to the US Navy 3 April 1942 |
| United States | |
| Name | USS Courage |
| Acquired | 18 March 1942 |
| Commissioned | 3 April 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 22 August 1945 |
| Identification | Hull number: PG-70 |
| Fate | Returned to Royal Navy 23 August 1945 |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Heartsease |
| Recommissioned | 23 August 1945 |
| Out of service | Sold into merchant service 22 July 1946 |
| Renamed |
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| Fate | Sunk by Indonesian Air Force December 1958 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Flower-class corvette |
| Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t) |
| Length | 208 ft 6 in (63.55 m) |
| Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 85 |
| Armament |
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HMS Heartsease was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She served with both the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the Second World War, with the latter navy as USS Courage. She then spent several years under a succession of names in civilian service. In 1957 she was chartered on behalf of Indonesian rebels to smuggle rubber, copra and matériel. The Indonesian Air Force intercepted and sank her off the coast of Minahasa in North Sulawesi in December 1958.