Anchusa class corvette
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The Anchusa class of corvettes or convoy sloops of the Royal Navy were completed in 1917 and 1918. They were a small class of convoy protection ships built to look like merchant ships for use as Q-ships in World War I.
A surviving example is HMS Saxifrage, completed in 1918 and later renamed to HMS President.
Anchusa class ships
- HMS Anchusa
- HMS Arbutus
- HMS Bergamot
- HMS Candytuft
- HMS Chrysanthemum (broken up 1995)
- HMS Cowslip
- HMS Rhododendron
- HMS Saxifrage renamed HMS President (1918)
See also Anchusa, a genus of plants.
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