Name: | TUBEROSE |
Type: | Patrol Frigate or Sloop |
Keel: | |
Launched: | 16/11/1917 |
Completed: | 01/1918 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 1044 |
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: | |
01/1918 | British Royal Navy |
15/01/1923 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the Flower Class - Anchusa Type |
Designed as Q ships, to look like merchant ships to U-Boats | |
15/01/1923: Sold to Unity Shipbreaking Co for breaking up at Plymouth |
Above photo, of sister AURICULA, is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo, of sister CEANOTHUS, is courtesy of Photoship