HMS Bryony (1917)

History
Class and type:	Anchusa-class sloop
Name:	HMS Bryony
Ordered:	21 February 1917
Builder:	Armstrong Whitworth
Launched:	27 October 1917
Fate:	Sold for breaking up on 3 April 1938
General characteristics
Displacement:	1,290 tons
Length:	250 ft (76 m) (p/p), 262.25 ft (79.93 m)(overall)
Beam:	35 ft (11 m)
Draught:	11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) (mean) 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) - 13 ft 8 in (4.17 m) (deep)
Propulsion:	One screw,br>4-cylinder triple expansion Two boilers 2,500 hp
Speed:	16 knots
Range:	Coal: 260 tons
Complement:	93 men
Armament:	Two x 4 inch guns One or two x 12 pdrs Four depth charge throwers

HMS Bryony was an Anchusa-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built at the yards of Armstrong Whitworth and launched on 27 October 1917.

She was used to escort convoys during the First World War, and in common with other ships of her class, was disguised as a merchant vessel, known as a Q-ship. After the war she remained in service with the Royal Navy and between 7 April 1933 and January 1934, she was commanded by Bernard Warburton-Lee, later to posthumously be awarded a Victoria Cross in the Second World War.

She was decommissioned before the outbreak of the Second World War and was sold on 3 April 1938 to Cashmore, of Newport, Monmouthshire to be broken up.

References

• 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. OCLC 67375475.
• Jane's Fighting Ships of World War One (1919), Jane's Publishing Company