HMS Genista
Two vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Genista, after the flower:
- HMS Genista (1916) was an Arabis-class minesweeping sloop built by Napier & Miller and launched on 26 February 1916. Sunk by German submarine U-57 in the Atlantic on 23 October 1916.[1]
- HMS Genista (K200) was a Flower-class corvette launched at Harland & Wolff on 24 July 1941. It was transferred to the Air Ministry in 1947 and renamed Weather Recorder, and broken up in Antwerp in October 1961.
Citations
[edit]- ^ "News of the Sea". The Beacon. Vol. XXVIII, no. 19. 4 November 1916. Retrieved 20 April 2025 – via Canadiana.
References
[edit]- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
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