hms "bramble" was paid off on 5 october 1919, and sold for scrap in january 1920. "britomart" is sometimes said to have shared her fate, as she had shared her career, but in fact she remained in service for a few months longer, and she was eventually sold on to a civilian owner on 6 october 1920, and modified to serve as a merchant ship, retaining her old name. in 1925, her name was changed to "shakuntala" (shakuntala in the "mahabharata", like britomart in "the faerie queene", is a heroine characterized by chaste loyalty to a true love who is unaware of her identity). sources state that the former gunboat was eventually scrapped in 1926.