HMS Blossom

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Blossom:

HMS Blossom was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1806. She was converted to a survey ship in 1825, was hulked as a lazarette in 1833 and broken up in 1848.
HMS Blossom was a Cheerful-class wooden screw gunboat, originally to have been named HMS Careful, but renamed in 1855 prior to her launch on 21 April 1856. She was broken up in 1864.
HMS Blossom was a screw tank vessel assigned to Gibraltar as a service vessel in May 1902.^[1]

References

↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Wednesday, 14 May 1902. (36767), p. 12.

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