HMS Peony (K40)

Sachtouris underway in September 1943, shortly after her transfer to the Royal Hellenic Navy.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Peony
Builder	Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Yard number	1066[1]
Laid down	24 February 1940
Launched	4 June 1940
Completed	2 August 1940[1]
Commissioned	2 August 1940
Out of service	Transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy in 1943
Renamed	Sachtouris on transfer
Reinstated	Returned to the Royal Navy in September 1951
Identification	Pennant number: K40
Fate	Scrapped 21 April 1952
Kingdom of Greece
Name	Sachtouris
Namesake	Georgios Sachtouris
Acquired	1943
Out of service	September 1951
General characteristics
Class and 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	Two fire tube boilers One 4-cycle triple expansion steam engine Single shaft
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h) at 2,750 hp (2,050 kW)
Range	3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	85
Armament	1 × BL 4 in (102 mm) Mk IX gun 2 × .50 cal machine gun twin machine guns 2 × 0.303 in Lewis machine guns 2 × stern depth charge racks with 40 depth charges

HMS Peony was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. In 1943 she was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy as RHNS Sachtouris (Greek: ΒΠ Σαχτούρης), serving throughout World War II and the Greek Civil War. She was returned to the Royal Navy in 1951 and scrapped in April 1952.