HMS Hyacinth (K84)
Apostolis in 1943, just after transfer to the Greek navy | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Hyacinth |
| Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Yard number | 1071 |
| Laid down | 20 April 1940 |
| Launched | 19 August 1940 |
| Completed | 3 October 1940 |
| Commissioned | 2 October 1940 |
| Out of service | Transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy on 24 October 1943 |
| Renamed | Apostolis on transfer |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1952 |
| Kingdom of Greece | |
| Name | Apostolis |
| Acquired | 1943 |
| Out of service | 1952 |
| Fate | Returned to the Royal Navy in 1952 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Flower-class corvette |
| Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t) |
| Length | 205 ft (62 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) at 2,750 hp (2,050 kW) |
| Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 85 |
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HMS Hyacinth was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War and achieved three victories over enemy submarines in a highly successful career. Only Sunflower managed to repeat such success among her sister ships. She went on to serve in the Royal Hellenic Navy as RHNS Apostolis (Greek: ΒΠ Αποστόλης), was returned to the Royal Navy in 1952 and scrapped in the same year.