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.

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475. 
• U-Boat.net