Anchusa Class Sloop (1917)

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

See Also

• Wikipedia

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).