Hart on the River Cllyde, January 1944
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMSHart
Builder	Alexander Stephen and Sons,Glasgow,Scotland
Laid down	27 March 1942
Launched	7 July 1943
Completed	12 December 1943
Identification	Pennant number U18/F58
Honours & awards	ARMADA 1599 CHINA 1900 ATLANTIC 1944-5 ENGLISH CHANNEL 1944 NORMANDY 1944 KOREA 1951
Fate	Sold toWest Germany, 27 April 1959
Badge	On a Field White, a Hart statant White
History
West Germany
Name	Scheer
Acquired	27 April 1959
Decommissioned	1967
Identification	Pennant number F216
Fate	Broken up, 1971
General characteristics
Class & type	ModifiedBlack Swan-classsloop

HMSHart was amodifiedBlack Swan-classsloop of theRoyal Navy. She saw service as a convoy escort during theSecond World War, seeing service in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Far East in 1945. She also took part in the Korean War in 1950 and 1951.

She was sold toFederal Republic of Germany in 1959, where she was renamedScheer and was used as a radar training ship.

Hart was built byAlexander Stephen and Sons,Glasgow,Scotland, was laid down on 27 March 1942, launched on 7 July 1943, and completed on 12 December 1943.^[1]

She was adopted by the civil town ofHale, then in Cheshire, as part ofWarship Week in 1942.

In 1944Hart undertook convoy protection duties in the North Western Approaches and Irish Sea. In March of that year she undertook duties in the Atlantic and Western Mediterranean. She was then nominated as part of the support for the invasion of Normandy,Operation Neptune in June 1944. Following the landings, she continued operations in the English Channel.

In 1945 she undertook convoy defence duties in the Atlantic Ocean. In July 1945 she was allocated for service with theBritish Pacific Fleet and was at Rabaul on 6 September 1945 for theSurrender of Japan in that area.

Following the war she remained in the Far East and received the new pennant number 'F58'. She was deployed withUnited Nations Naval forces for service in theKorean War. She returned to Devonport in 1951 and was placed in reserve, before being put on the disposal list.

In 1957,West Germany purchased seven escorts, includingHart for its newly establishedBundesmarine. After refit by Palmers at Jarrow, she was handed over to theBundesmarine on 27 April 1959, and was renamedScheer.^[2] She was subsequently converted by Seebeck in 1962, for use as a radar training ship and was armed with two bofors guns, in place of the twin 4-inch armament.

She remained operational until 1967 and was scrapped in 1971.

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• Hart at Naval History.net
• Hart at U-boat.net

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• Ships built on the River Clyde
• 1943 ships
• Korean War sloops of the United Kingdom

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