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1915 British ship

HMS Rosemary Rosemary during the Second World War History United Kingdom Name HMS Rosemary Operator Royal Navy Builder Richardson, Duck and Company, Thornaby-on-Tees Yard number No 661 Launched 22 November 1915 Completed 5 February 1916 Fate Sold for scrap 1947 General characteristics Type Minesweeper Displacement 1,200 long tons (1,200 t) Length 267 ft 9 in (81.61 m) o/a Beam 33 ft 6 in (10.21 m) Draught 11 ft 0 in (3.35 m) Propulsion 1 × 4-cylinder triple expansion engine 2 × cylindrical boilers 1 screw Speed 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) Complement 79 men Armament Typically 2 × 4 or 4.7-inch guns and 2 × 3-pounder (47 mm) AA guns

**HMS *Rosemary*** was an [*Arabis*-class minesweeping sloop](/source/Arabis-class_sloop) of the British [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy). Built by the [Teesside](/source/Teesside) shipbuilder [Richardson, Duck and Company](/source/Richardson%2C_Duck_and_Company) from 1915–1916, *Rosemary* carried out minesweeping and anti submarine operations during the [First World War](/source/First_World_War). She was used for fishery protection duties during the 1930s, and served through the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War), finally being sold for scrap in 1947.

## Design and construction

The *Arabis* class was a slightly enlarged and improved derivative of the previous [*Acacia*-class](/source/Acacia-class_sloop) and [*Azalea*-class](/source/Azalea-class_sloop) [sloops](/source/Sloop_of_war).[1][a] They were designed at the start of the [First World War](/source/First_World_War) as relatively fast minesweepers that could also carry out various miscellaneous duties in support of the fleet such as acting as [dispatch vessels](/source/Dispatch_vessel) or carrying out towing operations, but as the war continued and the threat from German submarines grew, became increasingly involved in anti-submarine duties.[2][3]

*Rosemary* was 268 ft (81.69 m) [long overall](/source/Length_overall) and 255 ft (77.72 m) [between perpendiculars](/source/Length_between_perpendiculars), with a [beam](/source/Beam_(nautical)) of 33 ft 6 in (10.21 m) and a [draught](/source/Draft_(ship)) of 11 ft (3.35 m).[4] [Displacement](/source/Displacement_(ship)) was 1,200 long tons (1,200 t) normal.[5] Two [cylindrical boilers](/source/Scotch_marine_boiler) fed steam to a four-cylinder [triple expansion steam engine](/source/Marine_steam_engine#Triple_or_multiple_expansion) rated at 2,000 ihp (1,500 kW), giving a speed of 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph).[5][6] The *Arabis* class had a main armament of two 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns or two 4-inch (102 mm) guns, with two 3-pounder (47 mm) anti-aircraft guns also carried.[5] By 1929, *Rosemary* was listed as having an armament of a single 4-inch gun and two [2-pounder "pom-pom"](/source/QF_2-pounder_naval_gun) anti-aircraft guns.[7]

*Rosemary* was part of the third batch of six *Arabis*-class sloops ordered by the British Admiralty on 27 July 1915.[8] The ship was laid down by [Richardson, Duck and Company](/source/Richardson%2C_Duck_and_Company) as [yard number](/source/Yard_number) 661,[9] and launched at their [Thornaby-on-Tees](/source/Thornaby-on-Tees) shipyard on 22 November 1915,[10] and was accepted into service on 5 February 1916.[8]

## Service

### First World War

After commissioning, *Rosemary* joined the 10th Sloop Flotilla, replacing sister ship [*Arabis*](/source/HMS_Arabis_(1915)), sunk in a [clash with German torpedo boats](/source/Battle_of_Dogger_Bank_(1916)) on 10 February 1916.[11] The flotilla, including *Rosemary*, carried out minesweeping operations in the North Sea on 19–21 to clear 'L channel', the route from the [Firth of Forth](/source/Firth_of_Forth) to the North Sea, completing the sweeping operations that had been interrupted by the Germans on 10 February.[12] On the morning of 4 July 1916, the 10th Sloop Flotilla was again carrying out sweeps of the routes to the [German Bight](/source/German_Bight) used by the [Grand Fleet](/source/Grand_Fleet). *Rosemary* reported sighting a submarine astern at 6:25 am, but the commander of the flotilla paid little importance to the report and the sweeping operations continued. At 9:25 am, the sloop [*Alyssum*](/source/HMS_Alyssum_(1915)), which was working with *Rosemary*, sighted two torpedoes which she avoided, but one of the torpedoes, which had been fired by the German submarine [*U-63*](/source/SM_U-63_(Germany)), hit *Rosemary*, blowing off *Rosemary*'s stern. *Rosemary* was taken under tow by *Alyssum* and escorted back to the Humber by the rest of the flotilla.[13] Three of *Rosemary*'s crew were killed.[14]

In February 1917, as a result of the [German resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare](/source/U-boat_campaign#1917:_Resumption_of_unrestricted_submarine_warfare), and the resulting heavy shipping losses in the [Western Approaches](/source/Western_Approaches), *Rosemary*, together with the rest of the 10th Sloop Flotilla, was transferred to Queenstown (now [Cobh](/source/Cobh)) in the South of Ireland, to be deployed on escort duties.[15] On 17 March 1917, *Rosemary* and sister sloop [*Mignonette*](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Mignonette_(1916)&action=edit&redlink=1) were minesweeping off [Gally Head](/source/Galley_Head_Lighthouse), [County Cork](/source/County_Cork) when *Mignonette* struck a mine. *Rosemary* took *Mignonette* in tow, but a [bulkhead](/source/Bulkhead_(partition)) aboard the damaged sloop soon failed, and *Mignonette* sank.[16] By July that year, *Rosemary* had transferred to the Northern division of the Coast of Ireland Station, with headquarters at [Buncrana](/source/Buncrana).[17] On 6 August 1917, *Rosemary* was part of the escort for Convoy HH.11, bound from [Newport News](/source/Newport_News) to [Glasgow](/source/Glasgow) and 81 nmi (150 km; 93 mi) west-northwest of [Tory Island](/source/Tory_Island) when the merchant ship [*Argalia*](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SS_Argalia_(1903)&action=edit&redlink=1) was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine [*U-94*](/source/SM_U-94). None of the escort spotted the submarine.[18] On 12 December 1917, *Rosemary* was part of a force of three destroyers and three sloops en route to rendezvous with a convoy when she was in collision with the destroyer [*Wolverine*](/source/HMS_Wolverine_(1910)), with *Wolverine* sinking as a result. Two of *Wolverine*'s crew were killed. The collision was blamed on the bridge crew of *Rosemary*.[19][20][21]

By June 1918, *Rosemary* had transferred to the [Northern Patrol](/source/Northern_Patrol),[22] and was listed as part of the 3rd Sloop Flotilla the next month.[23] *Rosemary* remained part of the 3rd Sloop Flotilla, based at [Dundee](/source/Dundee) at the end of the war on 11 November 1918.[24]

### Between the wars

By December 1918, *Rosemary* had transferred to the 23rd Fleet Sweeping Flotilla, part of the Northern division of the Coast of Ireland Station, serving as Senior Officer's Ship.[25] She was employed on post-war mine clearance duties.[26] *Rosemary* continued to be used for mine clearance duties in August 1919,[27] but by September that year, had been laid up.[28]

In 1929, while part of the Fishery Protection and Minesweeping Flotilla, *Rosemary* spent four months carrying out survey operations near [Rockall](/source/Rockall) and between [Iceland](/source/Iceland) and the [Faroe Islands](/source/Faroe_Islands), primarily in support of the fishing industry, and in particular to search for new fishing grounds.[29][30] *Rosemary* continued these survey operations in June 1930.[31] The [Rosemary Bank](/source/Rosemary_Bank), a [seamount](/source/Seamount) to the west of Scotland, was discovered by *Rosemary* during these surveys and was named after the sloop.[32]

In February 1930, *Rosemary* was carrying out a fishery protection patrol off [Murmansk](/source/Murmansk) when she was diverted to search for the trawler *St. Louis*, which had not been heard from since leaving [Hull](/source/Kingston_upon_Hull) on 8 January bound for the fishing grounds off [Bear Island](/source/Bear_Island_(Norway)). *Rosemary* met up with the sloop [*Harebell*](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Harebell_(1918)&action=edit&redlink=1), and the two sloops searched deep into Arctic waters, to within 100 nmi (190 km; 120 mi) of the [Arctic ice pack](/source/Arctic_ice_pack), the farthest North any Royal Navy ships had been for many years. They then continued the search down to [Lerwick](/source/Lerwick) in the [Shetland Islands](/source/Shetland_Islands).[33][34] In September 1930, *Rosemary*, recently returned from patrols off Iceland, was ordered to reduce to reserve at Portsmouth.[30] *Rosemary* was again part of the Fishery Protection and Minesweeping Flotilla, based at [Portsmouth](/source/HMNB_Portsmouth) in August 1935.[35] *Rosemary* was refitted in 1937, after which she was returned to the Reserve, being considered still useful in subsidiary roles in the event of a war.[36]

### Second World War

*Rosemary* returned to active service during the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War),[5] recommissioning on 30 September 1939,[37] and escorting convoys to France in the early months of the war.[38] On 12 February 1940, *Rosemary* attacked a submarine contact near [Start Point](/source/Start_Point%2C_Devon), with the sloop [*Sandwich*](/source/HMS_Sandwich_(L12)) and the destroyer [*Broke*](/source/HMS_Broke_(D83)) joining in the hunt for the submarine, which continued into the next day.[39] In June 1940, *Rosemary* took part in [Operation Aerial](/source/Operation_Aerial), the evacuation of Allied troops from ports in Western France,[40] escorting evacuation shipping.[41]

On 24 April 1943, two [landing craft](/source/Landing_Craft_Gun), *LCG 15* and *LCG 16*, were on passage from [Belfast](/source/Belfast) to [Falmouth, Cornwall](/source/Falmouth%2C_Cornwall), testing their seaworthiness, when they encountered a storm and heavy seas off the [Pembrokeshire](/source/Pembrokeshire) coast. They were denied permission to put into [Fishguard](/source/Fishguard) and [Milford Haven](/source/Milford_Haven), but reached Freshwater Bay. After they began taking on water faster than the vessels' pumps could remove it, they radioed for help. The [St Davids](/source/St_Davids) lifeboat did not arrive for over eight hours, when it was too dark to help. *LCG 15* sank on 25 April, while *Rosemary* arrived on the scene later that day, launching a boat to try to rescue *LCG 16*'s crew. This boat capsized, however, killing all six aboard, and on 26 April *LCG 16* also sank, with all hands lost. In all, seventy-three died near [Freshwater West](/source/Freshwater_West) from the two landing craft, along with the six men from *Rosemary*.[42][43][44] A memorial to the seventy-nine that lost their lives was unveiled at Freshwater West on 25 April 2013.[42]

## Disposal

*Rosemary* was sold for demolition to the shipbreakers [Thos. W. Ward](/source/Thos._W._Ward) on 17 December 1947 and scrapped at their Milford Haven works.[10]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Together with the following [*Aubrietia* class](/source/Aubrietia-class_sloop) and [*Anchusa* class](/source/Anchusa-class_sloop), these classes were collectively known as Flower-class sloops.

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