HMS Gnat

HMS Gnat

Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS "Gnat" after the insect.

*The first "Gnat" was a Cheerful class gunboat built at Laird's shipyard and launched on 10 May 1856. She was broken up in August 1864.
*The second "Gnat" was a composite screw gunvessel launched at Pembroke Dockyard on 26 November 1867. She was wrecked on Balabac Island in the China Sea on 15 November 1868.
* The third "Gnat" was a small coastal destroyer launched by Thornycroft at Chiswick on 1 December 1906 and sold for scrapping on 9 May 1921.
* The most recent "Gnat" was an Insect class gunboat launched by Lobnitz and Co. Shipyard at Renfrew in Scotland on 3 December 1915. She was torpedoed by a submarine on 21 October 1941 and beached at Alexandria, where she was converted to a fixed anti-aircraft platform. She was broken up in 1945.

References

*Colledge
* [http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship.html?shipID=1174 U-Boat.net]


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