HMS Mosquito

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 the name vessel for the two-vessel Musquito-class of floating batteries; she was launched in 1794 but wrecked in June 1795.
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

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