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