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{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Heliotrope'' (1915)|fate2=
|fatedate=7 Jan, 1935{{DittColl|p. 94}}
|order=May, 1915{{DittColl|p. 94}}
|name=Heliotrope
|launch=10 Sep, 1915{{DittColl|p. 94}}
|builder=[[Lobnitz & Company]]{{DittColl|p. 94}}
|fate=Sold
|pend=T.37 (Sep, 1915)<br>T.41 (Jan, 1918){{DittColl|p. 94}}
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Heliotrope''''' was one of twelve [[Azalea Class Sloop (1915)|''Azalea'' Class sweeping sloops]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].

==Service==
She was assigned to serve as one of the sloops attached to the Mediterranean Fleet without a flotilla designation, from some time in November, 1915 to some time in August, 1917.{{SMNLDec16|p. 20 and Supplements through September 1917}}  She then became one of six or seven sloops listed as being part of the [[British Aegean Squadron]], without a flotilla designation.{{SMNLSep17|p. 21}}  By mid-1918, this formation would obtain the designation of the {{UK-SloopF|9}} until the formation was disbanded in December, 1918.  She and {{UK-Spiraea}} left to become two of six sloops on the [[Black Sea and Marmora Division]].{{SMNLJan19|p. 22}}

She left Gibraltar for Portsmouth on 25 November 1920{{MoS|29 Nov. 1920, p. 8}} and paid off 15 December, 1920, part of the Reserve Fleet in Portsmouth.{{NLApr25|p. 245}}

After six years in reserve, she was refitted at Pembroke Dockyard for hot weather service{{ToL|H.M.S. Heliotrope|30 Jan. 1926, p. 15}} and commissioned on 15 December, 1926 for the [[America and West Indies Station]].{{NLFeb29|p. 244}}

She was re-commissioned at Bermuda on 12 June, 1929 for service on the [[America and West Indies Station]].{{NLJul31|p. 245}} She re-commissioned at Bermuda on 26 September, 1931 for service on the [[America and West Indies Station]].{{NLJan33|p. 245}}

The ship was paid off into Reserve at Portsmouth on 31 May, 1933.{{NLJul34|p. 246}}

==Captains==
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Heliotrope''" nat="UK">
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Spencer Reginald Strettell Richards|nick=Spencer R. S. Richards|appt=19 October, 1915{{NLAug17|p. 394''h''}}|end=October, 1918|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Maurice Ewbank|nick=Maurice Ewbank|appt=15 August, 1918<ref>Ewbank Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/174.|}} f. 218.</ref>|end=15 December, 1920<ref>Ewbank Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/174.|}} f. 218.</ref>|note=followed by six years in reserve|succBy=Placed in Reserve for Six Years}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Maurice Ewbank|nick=Maurice Ewbank|appt=20 March, 1926<ref>Ewbank Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/174.|}} f. 218.</ref>|end=29 April, 1926|precBy=Six Years in Reserve}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Arthur Bannatyne Arnold Baker|nick=Arthur B. A. Baker|appt=15 December, 1926<ref>Baker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/79.|}} f. 483.</ref>{{NLJul27|p. 245}}|end=November, 1927<ref>Baker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/79.|}} f. 483.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Basil Lyall Johnston|nick=Basil L. Johnston|appt=November, 1927<ref>Johnston Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/108.|}} f. 465.</ref>|end=June, 1928<ref>Johnston Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/108.|}} f. 465.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Arthur Kenneth Gibson|nick=Arthur K. Gibson|appt=8 May, 1928{{NLFeb29|p. 244}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Eric Reid Corson|nick=Eric R. Corson|appt=18 May, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 245}}|ass=14 May, 1930|end=October, 1931|note=vice Gibson}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Geoffrey Wyndham Wadham|nick=Geoffrey W. Wadham|appt=29 August, 1931{{NLJan33|p. 245}}<ref>Wadham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/54/103.|}} f. 103.</ref>|end=18 September, 1933<ref>Wadham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/54/103.|}} f. 103.</ref>}}
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==See Also==
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==Footnotes==
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