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Name: BERGAMOT
Type: Patrol Frigate or Sloop
Keel: 02/1917
Launched: 05/05/1917
Completed: 07/1917
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Yard: High Walker
Yard Number: 918
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:
07/1917 British Royal Navy
13/08/1917 Sank
Comments: Member of the Flower Class - Anchusa Type
Designed as Q ships, to look like merchant ships to U-Boats
13/08/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U84 in Tory Island approaches


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