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HMS Crocus

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Four ships of the Royal Navy have carried the name HMS Crocus, after the crocus, a genus of flowering plants.

  • HMS Crocus was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1808 and sold in 1815.
  • HMS Crocus was a wooden screw Albacore-class gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1864.
  • HMS Crocus was an Arabis-class minesweeping sloop launched in 1915 and sold in 1930.
  • HMS Crocus was a Flower-class corvette launched in 1940 and sold into civilian service in 1946 under the name Annlock.

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