Azalea-class sloop
| Azalea-class | 
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|---|---|
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1250 tons |
| Length: | 255.25 (p.p.), 267.75 (o.a.) feet |
| Beam: | 33.5 feet |
| Draught: | 11.33 - 11.75 feet (max. draught) |
| Propulsion: | Machinery: 1 set 4-cylinder triple expansion. Boilers: 2 cylindrical. 1 screw. |
| Range: | Coal: 130 tons normal, 260 tons max. = about 2000 miles at 15 kts. |
| Speed: | Designed 17 kts |
| Complement: | 79 men |
| Armament: | Designed to mount 2 x 4.7 inch or 4 inch and 2 x 3 pdr. AA. A few had no 3 pdrs |
The Azalea class sloops were built under the Emergency War Programme for the Royal Navy in World War I as part of the larger "Flower Class", which were also referred to as the "Cabbage Class", or "Herbaceous Borders".
They were single-screw Fleet Sweeping Vessels (Sloops) with triple hulls at the bows to give extra protection against loss when working.
Ships
- Azalea — built by Barclay Curle & Company, Whiteinch, completed September 1915
- Begonia — built by Barclay Curle, to Q-Ship Q10 (SS Dolcis Jessop), torpedoed in Atlantic October 06 1917
- Camellia — built by Bow MacLachlan and Company, Paisley, completed September 1915
- Carnation — built by Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Company, Greenock, completed September 1915
- Clematis — built by Greenock & Grangemouth, completed July 1915
- Heliotrope — built by Lobnitz & Company, Renfrew, completed September 1915
- Jessamine — built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend, Sept 1915,
- Myrtle — built by Lobnitz, lost in Baltic Sea 1919
- Narcissus — built by Napier & Miller, Old Kilpatrick, completed September 1915
- Peony — built by Archibald McMillan & Son, Dumbarton, sold out of service 1918
- Snowdrop — built by McMillan, completed October 1915
- Zinnia — built by Swan Hunter, completed August 1915
References
- Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I, Janes Publishing, 1919
- The Grand Fleet, Warship Design and Development 1906-1922, D. K. Brown, Chatham Publishing, 1999, ISBN 1-86176-099-X