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unusual facts about Anchusa-class sloop


Anchusa-class sloop

Torpedoed by a German submarine 18 November 1917 and stranded near Bougie, Algeria.


Anchusa

Anchusa species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora onosmella.

Anchusa arvensis

Anchusa arvensis is a plant species of the genus Anchusa.

Cruizer-class sloop

Renamed Cruiser in 1856, she served on the China station during the Second Opium War, including the taking of Canton and the attack on the Taku Forts on the Peiho river in 1859.

She was used to survey the Strait of Magellan, as well as Canadian and Australian waters, and on 20 February 1884 was loaned to the US Navy to assist in the rescue of the expedition under Adolphus Greely.

Greyhound-class sloop

She was reduced to harbour service in 1869, and in 1871 and 1872 she conducted hydrodynamic experiments to support the work of William Froude.

Rosario-class sloop

Royalist served both her commissions on the North America and West Indies Station, being commanded between 1865 and 1866 by Maurice Horatio Nelson, son of Thomas Nelson, 2nd Earl Nelson and great nephew to Horatio Nelson.


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