HMS Poppy was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy as a convoy escort during World War II.

Two Admiralty three-drum water tube boilers fed steam to a vertical triple-expansion engine rated at 2,750 indicated horsepower (2,050 kW) which drove a single propeller shaft.

[4] 200 tons of oil were carried, giving a range of 4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph).

[5][6] On 27 June 1942, Poppy departed Reykjavík, Iceland, escorting convoy PQ-17, bound for Arkhangelsk, Russia.

[7][8] Poppy escorted 51 convoys during the war, along with anti-submarine exercises with Royal Navy submarines off of Lough Foyle, and once each off Derry and Campbeltown.