HMS Marigold

Last updated December 21, 2021

Six ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Marigold, after the marigold flower:

HMS Marigold (1650), a 22-gun ship captured from the Portuguese in 1650 and sold 1658
Marigold, a 3-gun hoy, a 42-ton vessel built at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1653 and broken up in 1712
HMS Marigold (1673), a 4-gun fireship purchased in 1673 and lost in action in August of that year
HMS Marigold (1677), a 44-gun fourth rate captured from Algeria in 1677 and wrecked 1679
HMS Marigold (1915), an Acacia-class sloop launched in 1915 and sold 1920
HMS Marigold (K87), a Flower-class corvette launched in 1940 and sunk December 1942

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