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Name: CANDYTUFT
Type: Patrol Frigate or Sloop
Keel: 02/1917
Launched: 19/05/1917
Completed: 08/1917
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Yard: High Walker
Yard Number: 919
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:
08/1917 British Royal Navy
18/11/1917 Sank
Comments: Member of the Flower Class - Anchusa Type
Designed as Q ships, to look like merchant ships to U-Boats
18/11/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U39 off Bougie, Algeria
On passage from Gibraltar to Malta. 9 crew died


Above photo, of CANDYTUFT sinking, is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo, of sister AURICULA, is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo, of sister CEANOTHUS, is courtesy of Photoship