Class and type Azalea-class sloop Builder McMillan In service No Launched 7 October 1915 Draft 3.58 m | Name HMS Snowdrop Decommissioned 15 January 1923 Out of service Yes Length 82 m | |
HMS Snowdrop was an Azalea-class sloop of the Royal Navy.
Career
Snowdrop was built at the yards of McMillan, and was launched on 7 October 1915. She served during the First World War. In 1918 she rescued the survivors from the liner RMS Carpathia, which had been torpedoed three times and sunk by U-55 (six years earlier Carpathia had rescued the survivors from the ill-fated RMS Titanic). Also that same year she took the American destroyer USS Cassin in tow, after the Cassin had been damaged by U-61.
Snowdrop survived the war and continued in service until being sold for breaking up on 15 January 1923 to the Unity Ship Breaking Company.
References
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