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Latest revision as of 12:48, 17 January 2022

H.M.S. Anchusa (1917)
Pendant Number: T.01 (Jan, 1918)[1]
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Company[2]
Ordered: Jan, 1917[3]
Launched: 21 Apr, 1917[4]
Sunk: 16 Jul, 1918[5]
Fate: by U.54

H.M.S. Anchusa was one of twenty-eight Anchusa Class convoy sloops completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

On 13 December 1917, Anchusa was involved in a collision with the destroyer Mandate.[6]

Anchusa was sunk by U 54 shortly after she commenced operations with the Second Sloop Flotilla out of Buncrana.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 96.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 96.
  3. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 96.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 96.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 96.
  6. ↑ Henniker-Heaton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/148. f. 353.
  7. ↑ McCulloch Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/137/61. f. 61.
  8. ↑ McCulloch Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/137/61. f. 61.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 391i.
  10. ↑ Chamberlain Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/57/41. f. 41.
  11. ↑ Kindell. Royal Navy Roll of Honour Part 2. p. 515.
  12. ↑ Chamberlain Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/57/41. f. 41.

Bibliography


Anchusa Class Convoy Sloop
Anchusa Bergamot Candytuft Ceanothus Convolvulus
Eglantine Spiraea Syringa Arbutus Auricula
Bryony Chrysanthemum Coreopsis Cowslip Dianthus
Gardenia Gilia Harebell Ivy Marjoram
  Mistletoe Pelargonium Rhododendron Saxifrage  
  Silene Sweetbriar Tuberose Windflower  
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