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		21 Apr, 1917		Sunk 16 Jul, 1918
Bergamot	Armstrong		5 May, 1917		Sunk 13 Aug, 1917
Candytuft	Armstrong		19 May, 1917		Sunk 18 Nov, 1917
Ceanothus	Armstrong		2 Jun, 1917		Transferred May, 1922
Convolvulus	Barclay Curle		19 May, 1917		Sold 1 Dec, 1921
Eglantine	Barclay Curle		22 Jun, 1917		Sold 1 Dec, 1921
Spiraea	Simons		1 Nov, 1917		Sold 6 Sep, 1922
Syringa	Workman Clark		29 Sep, 1917		Sold 31 Mar, 1920
Arbutus	Armstrong		8 Sep, 1917		Sunk 16 Dec, 1917
Auricula	Armstrong		4 Oct, 1917		Sold 1 Feb, 1923
Bryony	Armstrong		27 Oct, 1917		Sold 3 Apr, 1938
Chrysanthemum	Armstrong		10 Nov, 1917
Coreopsis	Barclay Curle		15 Sep, 1917		Sold 6 Sep, 1922
Cowslip	Barclay Curle		19 Oct, 1917		Sunk 25 Apr, 1918
Dianthus	Barclay Curle		1 Dec, 1917		Sold 3 Jun, 1921
Gardenia	Barclay Curle		27 Dec, 1917		Sold 15 Jan, 1923
Gilia	Barclay Curle		15 Mar, 1918		Sold 15 Jan, 1923
Harebell	Barclay Curle		10 May, 1918		Broken up Dec, 1939
Ivy	Blyth Shipbuilding		31 Oct, 1917		Sold Feb, 1920
Marjoram	Greenock & Grangemouth		26 Dec, 1917		Wrecked Jan, 1921
Mistletoe	Greenock & Grangemouth		17 Nov, 1917		Sold 25 Jan, 1921
Pelargonium	Hamilton		18 Mar, 1918		Sold 25 Jan, 1921
Rhododendron	Irvine		15 Oct, 1917		Sunk 5 May, 1918
Saxifrage	Lobnitz		29 Jan, 1918		Transferred 1921
Silene	Simons		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		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).