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Acacia-class sloop
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<h2 id="ships">Ships</h2> <ul><li>Acacia — built by <a href="/facts/Swan_Hunter_%26_Wigham_Richardson/y0UEn8NL">Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson</a>, <a href="/facts/Wallsend/YSTI3N5D">Wallsend</a> on Tyne, launched 15 April 1915. Sold 6 September 1922.</li> <li>Anemone — built by Swan Hunter, launched 13 May 1915. Sold for breaking up 6 September 1922.</li> <li>Aster — built by <a href="/facts/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding/fuqAePhp">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> & Engineering Co, <a href="/facts/Kingston_upon_Hull/8yMvTEcM">Kingston upon Hull</a>, launched 1 May 1915. Mined 4 July 1917 in the Mediterranean.</li> <li><a href="/facts/HMS_Bluebell_(1915)/1VrEA3jn"><i>Bluebell</i></a> — built by <a href="/facts/Scotts_Shipbuilding_and_Engineering_Company/e8gFECyd">Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company</a>, <a href="/facts/Greenock/18jRvlkq">Greenock</a>, launched 24 July 1915. Sold for breaking up 26 May 1930.</li> <li>Daffodil — built by Scotts, launched 17 August 1915. Sold for breaking up 22 February 1935.</li> <li>Dahlia — built by <a href="/facts/Barclay_Curle_%26_Company/obYCUMlC">Barclay Curle & Company</a>, <a href="/facts/Whiteinch/eWUqgExj">Whiteinch</a>, launched 21 April 1915. Sold for breaking up 2 July 1932.</li> <li>Daphne — built by Barclay Curle, launched 19 May 1915. Sold for breaking up 15 January 1923.</li> <li><a href="/facts/HMS_Foxglove/c9MDnwPe"><i>Foxglove</i></a> — built by Barclay Curle, launched 30 March 1915, to guardship 1942, base ship 1943, sold for breaking up 7 September 1946.</li> <li>Hollyhock — built Barclay Curle, launched 1 May 1915. Sold for breaking up 7 October 1930.</li> <li>Honeysuckle — built by <a href="/facts/Lobnitz/DmpSrPYj">Lobnitz & Company</a>, <a href="/facts/Renfrew/DIsMVnhe">Renfrew</a>, launched 29 April 1915. Sold 6 September 1922.</li> <li>Iris — built by Lobnitz, launched 2 June 1915. Sold 26 January 1920, becoming mercantile <i>Principe d'Asturias</i>.</li> <li>Jonquil — built by <a href="/facts/Charles_Connell_and_Company/KrXqjtrd">Charles Connell and Company</a>, <a href="/facts/Scotstoun/mNkjAYdH">Scotstoun</a>, launched 12 May 1915. Sold May 1920 in Portugal, becoming Portuguese warship NRP <i>Carvalho Araújo</i>, classified as a cruiser, discarded 1959.</li> <li><a href="/facts/HMS_Laburnum_(1915)/E6jzKPJ0"><i>Laburnum</i></a> — built by C Connell & Co, launched 10 June 1915. Hulked as <a href="/facts/Royal_Naval_Volunteer_Reserve/cT62pzoC">RNVR</a> <a href="/facts/Training_ship/7fjjDXnH">drill ship</a> in <a href="/facts/Singapore/CQDkhUvD">Singapore</a> 1935, lost in February 1942 at the <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Singapore/HUXNISlA">fall of Singapore</a>.</li> <li>Larkspur — built by <a href="/facts/Napier_%26_Miller/z6XqArYh">Napier & Miller</a>, <a href="/facts/Old_Kilpatrick/BAWEcR44">Old Kilpatrick</a>, launched 11 May 1915. Sold for breaking up in March 1922.</li> <li>Lavender — built by Archibald McMillan & Son, <a href="/facts/Dumbarton/UxoCCDxF">Dumbarton</a>, launched 12 June 1915. Sunk by German submarine <a href="/facts/SM_UC-75/7DruvQaD"><i>UC-75</i></a> in the English Channel, 4 May 1917.</li> <li>Lilac — built by <a href="/facts/Greenock_%26_Grangemouth_Dockyard_Company/yUYmvnYW">Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Company</a>, Greenock, launched 2 April 1915. Sold for breaking up 15 December 1922.</li> <li>Lily — built by Barclay Curle, launched 16 June 1915. Depot ship October 1923, renamed <i>Vulcan II</i>; renamed <i>Adamant II</i> in 1930. Sold for breaking up 25 June 1930.</li> <li>Magnolia — built by Scotts, launched 26 June 1915. Sold for breaking up 2 July 1932.</li> <li><a href="/facts/HMS_Mallow_(1915)/qUgpc58L"><i>Mallow</i></a> — built by Barclay Curle, launched 13 July 1915. Transferred to <a href="/facts/Royal_Australian_Navy/AkYhdo4B">Royal Australian Navy</a> in July 1919, dismantled July 1932, sunk as target off Sydney 1 August 1935.</li> <li>Marigold — built by <a href="/facts/Bow,_McLachlan_and_Company/eUcv1rvB">Bow, McLachlan and Company</a>, launched 27 May 1915. Sold 26 January 1920, becoming mercantile <i>Principe de Piamonte</i>.</li> <li>Mimosa — built by Bow, MacLachlan & Co, launched 16 July 1915. Sold for breaking up 18 November 1922.</li> <li>Primrose — built by William Simons & Company, <a href="/facts/Renfrew/DIsMVnhe">Renfrew</a>, launched 29 June 1915. Sold for breaking up 9 April 1923.</li> <li>Sunflower — built by D. & W. Henderson & Company, <a href="/facts/Glasgow/hHUX44Ra">Glasgow</a>, launched 28 May 1915. Sold 27 January 1921 to Rangoon Port Commissioners, and renamed <i>Lanbya</i>. Resold 1923 to <a href="/facts/Mitsui_O.S.K._Lines/HxjLdore">Osaka Shosen(O.S.K)</a>, and renamed <i>Yashima Maru</i>. Breaking up maybe 1953 .</li> <li><a href="/facts/HMS_Veronica_(1915)/GvFzP1WI"><i>Veronica</i></a> — built by <a href="/facts/Dunlop_Bremner_%26_Company/3WwnBDz7">Dunlop Bremner & Company</a>, <a href="/facts/Port_Glasgow/dMNnonLe">Port Glasgow</a>, launched 27 May 1915. Sold for breaking up 22 February 1935.</li></ul> <ul><li><i>British and Empire Warships of the Second World War</i>, H T Lenton, 1998, Greenhill Books, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-85367-277-4</li> <li><i>Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I</i>, Janes Publishing, 1919</li> <li><i>The Grand Fleet, Warship Design and Development 1906-1922</i>, D. K. Brown, Chatham Publishing, 1999, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-86176-099-9</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <p> Media related to Acacia class sloop at Wikimedia Commons </p> <ul><li><a href="http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-LogBooksWW1.htm">"Royal Navy Log Books of the World War 1 Era"</a>. <i>naval-history.net</i>. Retrieved 15 December 2013. OldWeather.org transcription of ships' logbooks available for Acacia, <a href="/facts/HMS_Bluebell_(1915)/1VrEA3jn"><i>Bluebell</i></a>, <a href="/facts/HMS_Foxglove/c9MDnwPe"><i>Foxglove</i></a>, Hollyhock, <a href="/facts/HMS_Laburnum_(1915)/E6jzKPJ0"><i>Laburnum</i></a>, Magnolia, and <a href="/facts/HMS_Veronica_(1915)/GvFzP1WI"><i>Veronica</i></a>.</li></ul>