 HMS Azalea
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Azalea class |
| Operators | |
| Preceded by | Acacia class |
| Succeeded by | Arabis class |
| Built | 1915 |
| In service | 1915–1952 |
| In commission | 1915–1927 |
| Completed | 12 |
| Lost | 3 |
| Retired | 9 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Sloop |
| Displacement | 1,210 t (1,190 long tons) |
| Length | |
| Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught | 11+1⁄4 ft (3.4 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Range | 2,000 nmi (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Endurance | 130 t (130 long tons) of coal |
| Complement | 79 |
| Armament |
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The Azalea class of twelve minesweeping sloops were built under the Emergency War Programme for the Royal Navy in World War I as part of the larger Flower class, which were also referred to as the Cabbage class, or "Herbaceous Borders".[a] The third batch of twelve ships to be ordered in May 1915, they differed from the preceding Acacia class only in mounting a heavier armament. One ship, converted to a Q-ship was lost during the war, another during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War in 1919. With the exception of two others, the rest were scrapped. One entered mercantile service, while the other was transferred to the Belgian Navy. Both were captured by the Germans during World War II and put into German service. One was lost with the final ship being scrapped in 1952
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