Name: | SWEETBRIAR |
Type: | Patrol Frigate or Sloop |
Keel: | |
Launched: | 05/10/1917 |
Completed: | 11/1917 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 1042 |
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: | |
11/1917 | British Royal Navy |
07/10/1927 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the Flower Class - Anchusa Type |
Designed as Q ships, to look like merchant ships to U-Boats | |
07/10/1927: Sold to J Cashmore for breaking up at Newport |
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