HMS Marigold
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Six ships of the British Royal Navy
have been named HMS Marigold, after the marigold flower.
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
have been named HMS Marigold, after the marigold flower.
- The first Marigold was a 22-gun ship captured from the Portuguese in 1650 and sold 1658.
- The second Marigold was a 3-gun hoyHoy (boat)A hoy was a small sloop-rigged coasting ship or a heavy barge used for freight, usually displacing about 60 tons. The word derives from the Middle Dutch hoey. In 1495, one of the Paston Letters included the phrase, An hoye of Dorderycht , in such a way as to indicate that such contact was then...
, a 42-ton vessel built at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1653 and broken up in 1712. - The third Marigold was a 4-gun fireship purchased in 1673 and lost in action in August of that year.
- The fourth Marigold was a 44-gun fourth-rateFourth-rateIn the British Royal Navy, a fourth rate was, during the first half of the 18th century, a ship of the line mounting from 46 up to 60 guns. While the number of guns stayed subsequently in the same range up until 1817, after 1756 the ships of 50 guns and below were considered too weak to stand in...
captured from Algeria in 1677 and wrecked 1679. - The fifth Marigold was an Acacia-classAcacia class sloopThe Acacia class was a class of twenty-four sloops that were ordered in January 1915 under the Emergency War Programme for the Royal Navy in World War I as part of the larger "Flower Class", which were also referred to as the "Cabbage Class", or "Herbaceous Borders"...
sloopSloopA sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....
launched in 1915 and sold 1920. - The sixth MarigoldHMS Marigold (K87)HMS Marigold was a of the Royal Navy.-Career:Marigold was launched from the yards of Hall, Russell & Company, of Aberdeen, Scotland on 16 November 1940...
was a Flower-classFlower class corvetteThe Flower-class corvette was a class of 267 corvettes used during World War II, specifically with the Allied navies as anti-submarine convoy escorts during the Battle of the Atlantic...
corvetteCorvetteA corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft , although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role...
launched in 1940 and sunk December 1942.