Two ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Geranium'', after the flower, the
geranium
''Geranium'' is a genus of 422 species of annual, biennial, and perennial plants that are commonly known as geraniums or cranesbills. They are found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, but mostly in ...
:
* was an
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
launched in 1915. She was transferred to the
Royal Australian Navy in 1920, was dismantled in 1932 and sunk as a target in 1935.
* was a launched in 1940 and sold to the
Royal Danish Navy in 1945. They renamed her ''Thetis'' and discarded her in 1963.
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Royal Navy ship names