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&sq=&lang=&file=File:20040918-027-thames-ship.jpg) HMS President in the Thames
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Saxifrage |
| Builder | Lobnitz & Company, Renfrew, Scotland |
| Yard number | 827 |
| Launched | 29 January 1918 |
| Renamed |
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| Nickname(s) | "Mystery Ship" |
| Fate | Sold, 1988; resold 2001 & 2006, sold in 2018 Abandoned 2022 |
| Status | Abandoned |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Anchusa-class sloop |
| Displacement | 1,290 long tons (1,311 t) |
| Length | |
| Beam | 35 ft (10.7 m) |
| Draught | 11 ft 6 in (3.5 m) |
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| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Range | 260 tons coal |
| Complement | 93 |
| Armament |
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HMS President (formerly HMS Saxifrage) is a retired Flower-class Q-ship that was launched in 1918. She was renamed HMS President in 1922 and moored permanently on the Thames as a Royal Navy Reserve drill ship. In 1982 she was sold to private owners and, having changed hands twice, served as a venue for conferences and functions as well as the offices for a number of media companies. She has been moved to Chatham on the Medway in Kent since 2016, but is due to return to the capital. She had the suffix "(1918)" added to her name in order to distinguish her from HMS President, the Royal Naval Reserve base in St Katharine Docks. She is one of the last three surviving Royal Navy warships of the First World War.[Note 1] She is also the sole representative of the first type of purpose built anti-submarine vessels, and is the ancestor of World War II convoy escort sloops, which evolved into modern anti-submarine frigates.
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