HMS Mosquito

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Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mosquito, or the archaic HMS Musquito, after the tropical insect, the Mosquito:

• HMS Musquito was a vessel in service in 1777.
• HMS Musquito was a 6-gun schooner, previously the French privateer Venus. She was captured in 1793, purchased by the Navy in 1794 and captured by the Spanish in 1799.
• HMS Musquito was a floating battery launched in 1795 but wrecked later that year.
• HMS Musquito was a 12-gun schooner captured from the French in 1799 and sold in 1802.
• HMS Musquito was a Cruizer class brig-sloop launched in 1804 and sold in 1822.
• HMS Musquito was a Cherokee class brig-sloop launched in 1825 and sold in 1843.
• HMS Musquito was a 16-gun brig launched in 1851 and sold to the Prussian Navy in 1862.
• HMS Mosquito was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1871 and sold in 1888.
• HMS Mosquito was an Australian torpedo boat launched in 1884 and sold in 1912.
• HMS Mosquito was a paddle river gunboat launched in 1890 and sold in 1902.
• HMS Mosquito was a Beagle class destroyer launched in 1910 and sold in 1920.
• HMS Mosquito was a river gunboat launched in 1939 and sunk in 1940.
• HMS Mosquito (shore establishment) was a naval base in Alexandria, Egypt during World War II