HMS President (1918)
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HMS President is a retired Flower-class Q-ship that was launched in 1918. She was renamed HMS President in 1922 and moored permanently on the Thames as a Royal Navy Reserve drill ship. In 1988 she was
HMS President in the Thames
The former Anchusa-class convoy sloop HMS Saxifrage dazzle-painted in 1918.
A view of President with St Paul's Cathedral and the City of London in the background
HMS President painted by Tobias Rehberger in 2014 to commemorate the use of dazzle camouflage in World War I.
Anchusa-class sloop
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The twenty-eight Anchusa-class sloops were built under the Emergency War Programme for the Royal Navy in World War I as the final part of the larger "Flower class", which were also referred to as the
HMS President (1918)
…vessels, and is the ancestor of World War II convoy escort sloops, which evolved into modern anti-submarine frigates. HMS President was built as an Anchusa-type Flower-class sloop. These were built between 1916 and 1918 as submarine hunters disguised to look like merchant ships, while carrying concealed 4-inch…
Candytuft sinking, November 1917
Pelargonium was converted into the private yacht Oaxaca for California millionaire G. Allan Hancock