HMS Bryony (K192)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Bryony
Ordered	8 April 1940
Builder	Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Yard number	1102
Laid down	16 November 1940
Launched	15 March 1941
Completed	16 June 1942
Out of service	Sold to the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1948
Identification	Pennant number: K192
Motto	Quid habeo idem teneo; (Latin: "What I Have, the same I hold");
Norway
Name	Polarfront II
Acquired	1948
Stricken	1979
Fate	Scrapped 1980
General characteristics
Class & type	Flower-class corvette
Displacement	940 tons
Length	205 ft (62 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draught	11.5 ft (3.5 m)
Propulsion	Two fire tube boilers; one 4-cycle triple-expansion steam engine;
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h) at 2,750 hp (2,050 kW)
Range	3,500 nautical miles at 12 knots (6,500 km at 22 km/h)
Complement	85 men
Armament	1 × BL 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mk IX gun,; 2 × .50 inch (12.7 mm) twin machine guns,; 2 × .303 inch (7.7-mm) Lewis machine guns; 2 × stern depth charge racks with 40 depth charges;

History

United Kingdom
Name	HMS Bryony
Ordered	8 April 1940
Builder	Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Yard number	1102
Laid down	16 November 1940
Launched	15 March 1941
Completed	16 June 1942
Out of service	Sold to the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1948
Identification	Pennant number: K192
Motto	Quid habeo idem teneo (Latin: "What I Have, the same I hold")
Norway
Name	Polarfront II
Acquired	1948
Stricken	1979
Fate	Scrapped 1980
General characteristics
Class & type	Flower-class corvette
Displacement	940 tons
Length	205 ft (62 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draught	11.5 ft (3.5 m)
Propulsion	Two fire tube boilers one 4-cycle triple-expansion steam engine
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h) at 2,750 hp (2,050 kW)
Range	3,500 nautical miles at 12 knots (6,500 km at 22 km/h)
Complement	85 men
Armament	1 × BL 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mk IX gun, 2 × .50 inch (12.7 mm) twin machine guns, 2 × .303 inch (7.7-mm) Lewis machine guns 2 × stern depth charge racks with 40 depth charges