The last sloop commissioned by the Royal Navy

Which was the last sloop commissioned by the Royal Navy?

HMS Nereide, a Modified Black Swan-class sloop commissioned on 6 May 1946.

HMS Nereide was identified as the last sloop commissioned by the Royal Navy. She was a Modified Black Swan-class vessel and entered service on 6 May 1946. Magpie belonged to an earlier group of the same design and had commissioned in August 1943. Philip's command came near the end of a ship type that the Navy was already folding into its postwar anti-submarine fleet.