Japanese battleship Ise
On 12 April 1922, while at Yokohama, "Ise" hosted a delegation which included the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VIII), who was accompanied by his second cousin, the future Lord Mountbatten of Burma. Captain Kanna Norikazu relieved Nagasawa on 1 December. The ship aided survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake in September 1923. From the early 1920s through the late 1930s, "Ise" mostly cruised off the coast of China. Little detailed information is available about her activities during the 1920s, although she helped sink the obsolete destroyer during gunnery training on 10 August 1926. The ship was overhauled in 1928–1929, during which her forward superstructure was enlarged and her aviation facilities improved.
HMS Heartsease (K15)
"Heartsease" spent most of her early career escorting convoys through British waters. On 22 September 1940 she picked up 31 survivors from the Norwegian merchant which had been torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat west of Ireland. On 15 October she rescued nine survivors from the British merchant which had been sunk by west-north-west of Rockall. She was then called to the assistance of the inbound Convoy SC 7, which had come under attack from a U-boat wolfpack and was sustaining heavy losses. On arrival "Heartsease" was assigned to escort the damaged into port. On 23 December she collided with the in the Irish Sea. Both ships were saved and towed into port. A subsequent enquiry placed the blame on the captain of "Heartsease".