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Flower-class sloop
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<p>The Flower class comprised five sub-<a href="/facts/Ship_class/mmmaWnbe">classes</a> of <a href="/facts/Sloop-of-war/LKXBvGkw">sloops</a> built under the Emergency War Programme for the <a href="/facts/Royal_Navy/Xdy8YCH7">Royal Navy</a> during <a href="/facts/World_War_I/vITTUanQ">World War I</a>, all of which were named after various flowers. They were popularly known as the "herbaceous borders", in humorous reference to a well-known <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Navy#Hoyt.27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations_.281922.29">adage</a> about the Royal Navy ("Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls"), as well as to a type of <a href="/facts/Herbaceous_border/vJHQr3lo">garden arrangement</a> popular in the United Kingdom. </p>