HMS Gannet

Nine ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Gannet", after the seabird the Gannet:

hips

*HMS|Gannet|1800|6 was a 16-gun brig-sloop purchased in 1800 and sold in 1814.
*HMS|Gannet|1814|6 was an 18-gun "Cruizer" class brig-sloop launched in 1814 and sold in 1838.
*HMS|Gannet|1857|6 was a wood screw sloop launched in 1857 and broken up in 1887.
*HMS|Gannet|1878|6 was an "Osprey" class screw sloop launched in 1878. She became a training ship in 1903 and was renamed HMS "President", and was then lent as the training ship "Mercury". She was transferred as a museum ship in 1987 and is preserved in dry dock at Chatham Dockyard.
*HMS|Gannet|1888|6 was an iron screw gunboat built in 1888 and put up for sale in 1905.
*HMS "Gannet" was a composite screw sloop launched in 1888 as HMS|Nymphe|1888|6. She became a base ship and was renamed HMS "Wildfire" in 1906, renamed HMS "Gannet" in 1916, and then HMS "Pembroke" in 1917. She was sold in 1920.
*HMS "Gannet" was an iron screw gunboat launched in 1877 as HMS|Trent|1877|6. She was renamed HMS "Pembroke" in 1905, becoming a diving tender and being renamed HMS "Gannet" in 1917. She was sold in 1923.
*HMS|Gannet|1927|6 was a river gunboat launched in 1927 and transferred to the Chinese Navy in 1942, being renamed "Ying Shan". She was on their lists until 1975.

hore establishments

*HMS "Gannet" was the name assigned to RNAS Eglington, a Fleet Air Arm base in Northern Ireland, between 1943 and 1959.
*HMS "Gannet" is a Fleet Air Arm station established in 1971 at RNAS Prestwick in Ayrshire.