Anchusa Class Sloop (1917)
From The Dreadnought Project
Twenty-eight Anchusa class convoy sloops were completed for the Royal Navy late in the war. They varied considerably in the details between and even within builders.
| Overview of 28 vessels | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Anchusa | Armstrong, Whitworth & Company | 21 Apr, 1917 | Sunk 16 Jul, 1918 | ||
| Bergamot | Armstrong, Whitworth & Company | 5 May, 1917 | Sunk 13 Aug, 1917 | ||
| Candytuft | Armstrong, Whitworth & Company | 19 May, 1917 | Sunk 18 Nov, 1917 | ||
| Ceanothus | Armstrong, Whitworth & Company | 2 Jun, 1917 | Transferred May, 1922 | ||
| Convolvulus | Barclay Curle & Company | 19 May, 1917 | Sold 1 Dec, 1921 | ||
| Eglantine | Barclay Curle & Company | 22 Jun, 1917 | Sold 1 Dec, 1921 | ||
| Spiraea | William Simons & Company | 1 Nov, 1917 | Sold 6 Sep, 1922 | ||
| Syringa | Workman Clark & Company | 29 Sep, 1917 | Sold 31 Mar, 1920 | ||
| Arbutus | Armstrong, Whitworth & Company | 8 Sep, 1917 | Sunk 16 Dec, 1917 | ||
| Auricula | Armstrong, Whitworth & Company | 4 Oct, 1917 | Sold 1 Feb, 1923 | ||
| Bryony | Armstrong, Whitworth & Company | 27 Oct, 1917 | Sold 3 Apr, 1938 | ||
| Chrysanthemum | Armstrong, Whitworth & Company | 10 Nov, 1917 | |||
| Coreopsis | Barclay Curle & Company | 15 Sep, 1917 | Sold 6 Sep, 1922 | ||
| Cowslip | Barclay Curle & Company | 19 Oct, 1917 | Sunk 25 Apr, 1918 | ||
| Dianthus | Barclay Curle & Company | 1 Dec, 1917 | Sold 3 Jun, 1921 | ||
| Gardenia | Barclay Curle & Company | 27 Dec, 1917 | Sold 15 Jan, 1923 | ||
| Gilia | Barclay Curle & Company | 15 Mar, 1918 | Sold 15 Jan, 1923 | ||
| Harebell | Barclay Curle & Company | 10 May, 1918 | Broken up Dec, 1939 | ||
| Ivy | Blyth Shipbuilding | 31 Oct, 1917 | Sold Feb, 1920 | ||
| Marjoram | Greenock and Grangemouth Dockyard Company | 26 Dec, 1917 | Wrecked Jan, 1921 | ||
| Mistletoe | Greenock and Grangemouth Dockyard Company | 17 Nov, 1917 | Sold 25 Jan, 1921 | ||
| Pelargonium | William Hamilton & Company | 18 Mar, 1918 | Sold 25 Jan, 1921 | ||
| Rhododendron | Irvine's Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company | 15 Oct, 1917 | Sunk 5 May, 1918 | ||
| Saxifrage | Lobnitz & Company | 29 Jan, 1918 | Transferred 1921 | ||
| Silene | William Simons & Company | 12 Mar, 1918 | Sold 29 Dec, 1921 | ||
| Sweetbriar | Swan Hunter | 5 Oct, 1917 | Sold 7 Oct, 1927 | ||
| Tuberose | Swan Hunter | 16 Nov, 1917 | Sold 15 Jan, 1923 | ||
| Windflower | Workman Clark & Company | 12 Apr, 1918 | Sold 7 Oct, 1927 | ||
Design & Construction
Performance
Armament
See Also
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
