| Name: | CEANOTHUS |
| Type: | Patrol Frigate or Sloop |
| Keel: | 02/1917 |
| Launched: | 02/06/1917 |
| Completed: | 09/1917 |
| Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co |
| Yard: | High Walker |
| Yard Number: | 920 |
| 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: | |
| 09/1917 | British Royal Navy |
| 05/1922 | Transferred to the Royal Indian Marine; renamed ELPHINSTONE |
| 29/01/1925 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | Member of the Flower Class - Anchusa Type |
| Designed as Q ships, to look like merchant ships to U-Boats | |
| 29/01/1925: Wrecked on the Nicobar Islands |
Above photo as CEANOTHUS is courtesy of Photoship
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