| Name: | ARBUTUS |
| Type: | Patrol Frigate or Sloop |
| Keel: | 21/05/1917 |
| Launched: | 08/09/1917 |
| Completed: | 31/10/1917 |
| Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co |
| Yard: | High Walker |
| Yard Number: | 926 |
| Dimensions: | 1165disp - 1440disp, 250.0 x 33.0 x 11.5(draft)ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (21.5, 35 & 58 x 27ins), 2500hp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 16.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 2 x 1 x 4.0ins, 2 x 1 x 12pdr guns; depth charges |
| History: | |
| 31/10/1917 | British Royal Navy |
| 16/12/1917 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the Flower Class - Anchusa Type |
| Designed as Q ships, to look like merchant ships to U-Boats | |
| 15/12/1917: Torpedoed & damaged by U-Boat UB65 in St George's Channel | |
| 16/12/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat whilst under tow, 20 miles S of Milford Haven |
Above photo of sister CHRYSANTHEMUM is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
Above photo of sister CHRYSANTHEMUM is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
Above photo of sister CHRYSANTHEMUM is copyright of the Imperial War Museum