HMS Gannet

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There have been nine vessels of the Royal Navy named HMS Gannet, after the seabird:

• HMS Gannet, a wooden sloop commissioned in 1800 and sold in 1814
• HMS Gannet, a cruiser launched in 1814 and paid off in 1838
• HMS Gannet, a sloop launched in 1857 and broken up in 1887
• HMS Gannet, a sloop launched in 1878 and preserved in dry dock at Chatham
• The sloop HMS Wildfire was renamed HMS Gannet in 1916, and then HMS Pembrooke the following year
• The gunboat HMS Pembroke was renamed HMS Gannet in 1917, and broken up in 1923
• HMS Gannet, a river gunboat commissioned in 1928 and transferred to the Chinese Navy in 1942
• The stone frigate RNAS Eglington in Northern Ireland was given the name HMS Gannet in 1943
• The present HMS Gannet is another stone frigate, established in 1971 at Prestwick Airport in Ayrshire, which hosts several FAA helicopter squadrons.