HMS Gnat
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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
- J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.
- [U-Boat.net]
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