HMS Laburnum (1915)
HMS Laburnum in a photo taken in 1917 by Eric Murray from HMS Poppy
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| Name: | HMS Laburnum |
| Namesake: | Laburnum |
| Builder: | Charles Connell and Company, Scotstoun |
| Laid down: | February 1915 |
| Launched: | 10 June 1915 |
| Completed: | August 1915 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: T49 (January 1918), later T48 |
| Fate: | Transferred to New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, 11 March 1922 |
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New Zealand
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| Name: | HMS Laburnum |
| Acquired: | 11 March 1922 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Straits Settlement Naval Volunteer Reserve, 11 February 1935 |
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| Name: | HMS Laburnum |
| Acquired: | 11 February 1935 |
| Fate: | Scuttled, 15 February 1942 |
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| Class and type: | Acacia-class sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,200 long tons (1,219 t) |
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| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
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| Range: | 2,000 nmi (3,700 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h) with max. 250 tons of coal |
| Complement: | 77 |
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HMS Laburnum was a Royal Navy Acacia-class sloop built by Charles Connell and Company, Scotstoun. She was scuttled during the fall of Singapore in 1942.
She was laid down at the Scotstoun yard of Charles Connell and Company in February 1915, launched on 10 June 1915 and completed in August 1915. The Acacia-class fleet sweeping sloops were adapted for escort work, minesweeping and as decoy warships.
Laburnum joined the First Sloop Flotilla on commissioning. On 4 September 1915, the passenger liner Hesperian was torpedoed without warning by the German submarine U-20 southwest of Queenstown (now called Cobh) in the south of Ireland with the loss of 32 lives. Laburnum was one of several ships, also including the seaplane carrier Empress and the sloops Marigold and Veronica, to go to Hesperian's aid. Attempts to tow Hesperian to port failed, with the stricken liner sinking on 6 September. The sinking of the Hesperian, which occurred despite an assurance to US President Woodrow Wilson from the German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg that no passenger liners would be sank without warning, provoked protests from America that resulted in the submarine campaign against merchant shipping in British waters being suspended for several months.
On 24 April 1916, the Easter Rising, an armed rebellion by Irish republicans against British rule, began. Laburnum was ordered to Galway to defend the port on 25 April, arriving there on 26 April. On hearing reports that a group of rebels were advancing on the port, the Captain of Laburnum ordered her to open fire, with 10 shells being fired in the direction of the rebels and at a road on the outskirts of the city. On 28 April, Laburnum escorted a transport carrying troops to Galway.
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