British/South African warships HMS Crozier, Eden and Foyl underway towards South Africa according to the Weekly Intelligence Summary No. 41 dated 15 October 1921

An item reported that intended departure in mid-November of the British/South African warships HMS Crozier (1), Eden (2) and Foyl (3) from England towards Simonstown, South Africa.

Notes

1. Part of Hunt-class minesweeping sloops but completed as a survey vessel, ex-Verwood and Ventnor, launched by Simons in 1919, handed over to the South African Naval Services, since 1933 again of the British Royal Navy, during the Spanish Civil War she was first a blockade runner, became the fast transport Capitán de corbeta Verdia of the Spanish Republican Navy, when the war ended she was converted into the gunnery training ship Virgen de la Caridad of the Spanish navy until she was broken up in 1960.

2. Built by Cochrabe&Sons, Selby, England in 1918 as Admiralty trawler Thomas Johns of the Mersey-class, became the Eden, commissioned as the HMSAS Immortelle on 1 April 1922,decommissioned on 31 March 1934, given back to England and retained her name Eden.

3. The Admiralty trawler Foyle of the Mersey-class, built as the John Edmund (Admiralty number 3738, renamed Foyle in September 1920, loaned to the South African Naval Service between September 1921 and June 1934 as the Sonneblom, sold in 1946 and renamed Cramond Island.

Source

The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB-24-129-24