British minesweeping sloop HMS Asphodel 1915-1920 and Danish HDMS Fylla 1920-1954

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Built under the Emergency War Programme of the First World War. At the end of 1914 was the design completed and in JUly 1915 were 36 ships in 3 batches ordered for the British Royal Navy. British shipyards built an additional 8 vessels for the French Navy. Part of Arabis-class preceded by Azalea- and Acacia classes and preceded by Aubrietia-class. The Arabis-class was just like 4 other subclasses part of the so-called Flower-class, the later also known as Cabbage-class or the Herbacous Borders. Launched by D.&W. Henderson and Company, Partick, Scotland on 21 December 1915, sold to Denmark on 16 JUne 1920, renamed HDMS Fylla, served as fishery inspection vessel on the North Atlantic and around Iceland and Greenland and stricken in 1954.