HMS Blossom

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Blossom:

  • HMS Blossom (1806) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1806. She was converted to a survey ship in 1825, was hulked as a lazarette in 1833 and broken up in 1848.
  • HMS Blossom (1856) was a Cheerful-class wooden screw gunboat, originally to have been named HMS Careful, but renamed in 1855 prior to her launch on 21 April 1856. She was broken up in 1864.
  • HMS Blossom was a screw tank vessel assigned to Gibraltar as a service vessel in May 1902.[1]

References
  1. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36767). London. 14 May 1902. p. 12.
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