25-657: K40 may refer to: HMS Peony (K40) , a corvette of the Royal Navy INS ; Eilat (K-40) , a destroyer of the Israeli Navy INS ; Veer (K40) , a corvette of the Indian Navy Piano Concerto No. 3 (Mozart) , by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Potassium-40 , an isotope of potassium Redmi K40 , a smartphone Toyota K40 transmission [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
50-523: A whaler . They retrieved the U-boat's Enigma key setting sheets with all current settings for the U-boat Enigma network. Two German crew members, rescued from the sea, watched this material being loaded into Petard' s whaler but were dissuaded from interfering by an armed guard. Grazier and Fasson were inside the U-boat, attempting to get out, when it foundered ; both drowned. Grazier and Fasson were awarded
75-581: A few hours earlier. Peony went to Salvia ' s rescue but found no survivors: only a patch of oil. In 1943 Peony was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy, which renamed her as the "Royal Ship Sachtouris " (ΒΠ Σαχτούρης) after Georgios Sachtouris , an admiral in the Greek War of Independence . She was the second of three ships to bear this name, the first being a gunboat built in 1834 in Greece, and
100-407: A maximum surface speed of 17.7 knots (32.8 km/h; 20.4 mph) and a maximum submerged speed of 7.6 knots (14.1 km/h; 8.7 mph). When submerged, the boat could operate for 80 nautical miles (150 km; 92 mi) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph); when surfaced, she could travel 8,500 nautical miles (15,700 km; 9,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). U-559
125-452: A total of 2,800 to 3,200 metric horsepower (2,060 to 2,350 kW; 2,760 to 3,160 shp) for use while surfaced, two Brown, Boveri & Cie GG UB 720/8 double-acting electric motors producing a total of 750 metric horsepower (550 kW; 740 shp) for use while submerged. She had two shafts and two 1.23 m (4 ft) propellers . The boat was capable of operating at depths of up to 230 metres (750 ft). The submarine had
150-819: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages HMS Peony (K40) HMS Peony was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy . In 1943 she was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy (Greek 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. Throughout her Royal Navy career Peony escorted convoys : primarily in home waters, but sometimes in
175-516: Is perhaps best remembered for an incident during her sinking in the Mediterranean Sea in 1942, in which British sailors seized cryptographic material from her. This material was extremely valuable in breaking the U-boat Enigma machine cipher. German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB submarines . U-559 had a displacement of 769 tonnes (757 long tons) when at
200-511: The Blohm & Voss shipyards in Hamburg as "Baunummer 535" ("Yard number 535"), she was launched on 8 January 1941 and commissioned on 27 February under Kapitänleutnant Hans Heidtmann . She began her service career with the 1st U-boat Flotilla , undergoing training before being declared operational on 1 June 1941. She moved to the 29th U-boat Flotilla on 15 April 1942. She sank five ships but
225-538: The George Cross posthumously, Brown was awarded the George Medal . The Victoria Cross was considered but not awarded, for the ostensible reason that their bravery was not "in the face of the enemy". Another consideration may have been that a Victoria Cross would have drawn unwanted attention to the U-boat's capture from German intelligence. It was also discovered that Brown had lied about his age in order to enlist, and
250-489: 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
275-463: The Nile Delta . The destroyer HMS Hero was alerted by radio and steamed to intercept her, while the destroyers HMS Petard , Pakenham , Dulverton and Hurworth sailed from Port Said , Egypt . At about 12:34 a Wellesley patrol aircraft , F from 47 Squadron , spotted the periscope of the submerged U-559 and attacked with depth charges. The destroyer group hunted for
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#1732883804672300-724: The Atlantic against Allied convoys in the Western Approaches . Her first patrol took her from Kiel on 4 June 1941, across the North Sea and through the gap between Greenland and Iceland . She arrived at St. Nazaire in occupied France on 5 July. Her second sortie met with success when she torpedoed and sank the Alva about 600 nautical miles (1,100 km; 690 mi) west of Ushant . She returned to her French base on 22 August 1941. For her third patrol, beginning on 20 September, she
325-451: The U-boat for 16 hours, constantly depth charging. After dark, U-559 , with a cracked pressure hull, unable to maintain level trim and four of her crew dead from explosions and flooding, was forced to the surface. She was close to Petard , which immediately opened fire with her Oerlikon 20 mm cannon . The German crew hurriedly scrambled overboard without destroying their codebooks or Enigma machine and, crucially, having failed to open all
350-411: The U-boat sank the steamship with the loss of 23 men. Peony and HMS Avon Vale rescued the survivors. In the small hours of 24 December 1941 U-568 torpedoed and sank a sister ship , HMS Salvia , about 100 nautical miles (190 km) west of Alexandria. Salvia was carrying not only her own complement but also about 100 survivors from SS Shuntien , which U-559 had sunk
375-562: The boat sank Shuntien on the 23rd. Shuntien carried 850 – 1,100 German and Italian prisoners of war. Between 800 and 1,000 people were killed, including at least 700 PoWs. Her sixth and seventh patrols were both from Salamis to the area of the Libyan coast. They were without success. Having moved to Pula in Croatia in March 1942, she then sortied on 18 May, and sank the tanker Athene and damaged
400-651: The early 1950s the Mutual Defense Assistance Act started the transfer of American ships to Greece. Four Cannon -class destroyer escorts entered Greek service and so the old British Flower-class corvettes were superseded. Sachtouris was returned to the Royal Navy in September 1951 and scrapped on 21 April 1952. German submarine U-559 German submarine U-559 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine for service during World War II . Laid down on 1 February 1940 at
425-592: The following months. Along with the Australian destroyer HMAS Vendetta , three corvettes and two anti-submarine aircraft she attacked a U-boat on 8 October 1941, but the U-boat escaped. In December 1941 while escorting Mediterranean convoy AT-6 from Alexandria to Tobruk , the German submarine U-559 torpedoed the Polish steamer Warszawa and attacked Peony . Peony took Warszawa in tow until another torpedo from
450-446: The oiler Brambleleaf in a convoy attack on 10 June. Her ninth patrol, however, was without success. U-559 took part in one wolfpack , namely: It was her own demise that made her most famous. At about 05:00 on 30 October 1942, U-559 was spotted by a Royal Air Force Sunderland , W from 201 Squadron in position 31°47′N 33°24′E / 31.783°N 33.400°E / 31.783; 33.400 , 70 miles north of
475-448: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=K40&oldid=1090074880 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
500-590: The sea-water vents to scuttle the U-boat properly. Three Royal Navy sailors, Lieutenant Anthony Fasson , Able Seaman Colin Grazier and NAAFI canteen assistant Tommy Brown , then boarded the abandoned submarine. There are differing reports as to how the three British men boarded the U-boat. Some accounts (such as that of Kahn) say that they "swam naked" to U-559 , which was sinking, but slowly. Sebag-Montefiore states that they either leapt from Petard or, in Brown's case, from
525-462: The surface and 871 tonnes (857 long tons) while submerged. She had a total length of 67.10 m (220 ft 2 in), a pressure hull length of 50.50 m (165 ft 8 in), a beam of 6.20 m (20 ft 4 in), a height of 9.60 m (31 ft 6 in), and a draught of 4.74 m (15 ft 7 in). The submarine was powered by two Germaniawerft F46 four-stroke, six-cylinder supercharged diesel engines producing
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#1732883804672550-782: The third being the Gearing -class destroyer USS Arnold J. Isbell . She served the remainder of the Second World War under the Greek flag . She also served in the Greek Civil War that broke out after the end of the Second World War. In 1947 the United States in what became known as the Truman Doctrine declared its support the Greek government in its war against Communist guerrillas. In
575-731: Was assigned to the 'Goeben' group, which were the first U-boats to enter the Mediterranean in World War II through the heavily defended Strait of Gibraltar . She reached Salamis in Greece, after having first investigated the Libyan / Egyptian border. On her fourth patrol, she torpedoed and sank the Australian sloop HMAS Parramatta off the Libyan coast; although most survivors were picked up by other ships, three men managed to reach dry land where they were rescued by advancing British troops. On her fifth patrol, which began on 8 December 1941,
600-451: Was fitted with five 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes (four fitted at the bow and one at the stern), fourteen torpedoes , one 8.8 cm (3.46 in) SK C/35 naval gun , 220 rounds, and a 2 cm (0.79 in) C/30 anti-aircraft gun. The boat had a complement of between forty-four and sixty. U-559 was originally intended to serve as an Atlantic U-boat during the Battle of
625-486: Was only 16 years old, making him one of the youngest recipients of the George Medal . He was discharged and returned home to North Shields , only to die two years later attempting to rescue his younger sister from a house fire. The code-book material they retrieved was immensely valuable to the code-breakers at Bletchley Park , who had been unable to read the 4-rotor U-boat Enigma for ten months since its introduction by
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