[2] The propulsion system consisted of a four-cylinder triple expansion engine, connected to a single propeller shaft.

[6] After World War I, Geranium and two sister ships (Mallow and Marguerite) were sent to Australia to clear mines deployed by the German auxiliary cruiser SMS Wolf.

[1] In 1923, the sloop ran aground on an uncharted reef off Vanderlin Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

[9] In October, Geranium rescued the civilian steamship Montoro after she struck Young Reef.

[7] The ship was broken up for scrap at Cockatoo Island Dockyard during 1932, and the stripped hulk was sunk as a target in the Tasman Sea outside Sydney Heads on 24 April 1935.