HMS Chrysanthemum (1917)

HMS Chrysanthemum was an Anchusa-class sloop of the Royal Navy, one of twenty convoy sloops ordered on 21 February 1917. Armstrong Whitworth laid her down at its High Walker shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne as yard number 929 on 9 July 1917, launched her on 10 November 1917 and completed her on 8 February 1918. She was about 84 metres long overall, with two coal-fed boilers feeding a triple-expansion steam engine, and was designed to look like a merchant ship so that submarines would stay on the surface. She served at Gibraltar and Malta, then from 1938 was a drill ship for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and Royal Naval Reserve on the Thames. Sold in 1988, she appeared as Tiber in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and was scrapped in 1995.